Frances Bean Cobain Quotes

My parents would, like, argue in front of us and it wasn't a big deal, whereas I know some people's parents who, if they argued, it was like, 'Oh, my God.'

I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.

My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He had become so enraged. He told me never to come back, and that was all the severance it took.

She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.

Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.

All my friends' mothers were appalling women.

I think being raised by a single mother put me on the outside, and I would watch my mother's married friends and think, 'Why does she put him down in public?' or, 'Why is he so rude to her?' It seemed to me that there were very few marriages where the couple were genuinely in a supportive, loving partnership.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

I only saw my father twice a year. If I'd seen him all the time I'd probably have murdered him by now. He was very strict.

I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.

You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.

I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.

Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

My brother and I tortured my mother growing up.

There will be no 'Mommie Dearest' in the lives of my children, and no books like the one the Crosby boy wrote about Bing, or Bette Davis's daughter has written. My children love me very much, and they are loved.

I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

My relationship with my mom is really bad.

I choose not to see my parents because I value myself - and they didn't value me or my mind.

My mother was a terrible narcissist and I could well have turned out like her.

There was a lot of turmoil in my family.

All my mother ever wanted to talk about was what she hated about my father and the times he cheated on her when he was younger. It really irritated me, and I told them they had to sort things out between themselves. Looking back on that, I see that it was really cold of me as a son.