If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness.
Parents Quotes
I invented Edna because I hated her. She was a silly ignorant, self-satisfied housewife. I suppose one grows up with a desire to murder one’s parents, but you can’t really do that. So I suppose I tried to murder them symbolically on stage. I poured out my hatred of the little people of their generation.
The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.
What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion.
Parents especially stepparents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don’t fulfill the promise of their early years.
One of the most visible effects of a child’s presence in the household is to turn the worthy parents into complete idiots when, without him, they would perhaps have remained mere imbeciles.
There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
The young always have the same problem, how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
