Grandchildren Quote by Anne Reid

I felt like as a parent, I had to be tough and strong and keep it all together, but I wasn't actually always all…

— Cynthia Germanotta

All my life I've felt like somebody's wife, or somebody's mother or somebody's daughter. Even all the time we were together, I never knew…

— Robert Benton

I went through what I imagine thousands of other women have felt. I told myself to stay calm, to be strong, and that I…

— Angelina Jolie

My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why…

— Banks

Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.

— Meryl Streep

I had a pretty rough childhood. I was raised for a few years by my single mom, until she married my stepdad a little…

— Marisol Nichols

Up until I was eleven years old, I thought I was the only one of my kind in the world. I couldn't find anybody…

— Harry Hay

I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I had a…

— Andrew Solomon

Early on, my emotional work had to do with feeling unheard and invisible. My parents divorce at six, when I was six, really affected…

— Daphne Zuniga

I could be pretty volatile, especially when I didn't feel understood, which was 99 percent of the time. I do think that, as a…

— Jane Lynch

It was hard for me, as a father, to imagine going through what my birth mom went through, to raise a child inside of…

— Michael Franti

When you have kids, for me, it really changed me. I was always empathetic to other children, but now I'm so much more sensitive…

— Sam Trammell