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My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending…

— Alice Walker

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 father was very confrontational and an intellectual bully. My mom was a peacemaker who wanted to make everyone comfortable.

— Rick Owens

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this. But I have will…

— Xavier Dolan

My mom taught me to do things like hug a tree and ask for a flower's permission to pick it.

— Rachel Bilson

My mother always kept us involved in various types of art.

— Dante Basco

My father was the nurturing one, the one who always made sure my sister and I ate properly and that our hair was brushed...…

— Kenza Fourati

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

— Marilyn Manson

I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things. My older brothers and sister had started to school when, sometimes, they would…

— Malcolm X

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

— Anthony Kiedis

Since I was a little girl, I have witnessed the strength and courage that energized my mother, who left every sorrow and pain in…

— Thalia

I was handed a tough life lesson at a very early age.

— Boomer Esiason