Benign Quote by Ariel Gore

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didnt always know how to be the nurturing…

— Amy Tan

My mother saw her mother... her father walked out when they were very young and it was a lot of, I'd say more verbal…

— Kathy Hochul

My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was very nurturing and loving, but…

— Kym Whitley

The separation from my mother at an early age was traumatic.

— Goldie

I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.

— Barry Humphries

My mother was very hard on me when I was a child. I think she was raising me how the world was treating her.

— Erika Jayne

My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.

— Marilyn Manson

Violence was very much a part of my mother's upbringing - a little less so with my father's, but my father was an angry…

— Rodney Crowell

My mother was strong-willed, demanding, and very supportive all at the same time.

— Michael Spence

Suddenly, one day, there was this thing called parenting. Parenting was serious. Parenting was fierce. Parenting was solemn. Parenting was a participle, like going…

— Nora Ephron

I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult…

— Dani Shapiro

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when…

— Elvis Presley