Abusive-mother Quote by Joan Frances Casey

“The little girl’s eyes were squeezed tightly shut and she bore the angry expression unique to babies who had just been wrenched from the…

— Kathryn Hughes

“More than one personality was created in the hope of being the daughter Nancy could consistently love. More than one new personality was created…

— Joan Frances Casey

“Wise as she was, she realized that people can postpone their rebellious phases until they're eighty-five years old, and she decided to keep an…

— Tove Jansson

“Nancy and I discovered that you can strip a bully of heir power without even confronting them. All you need to find is your…

— Ginger Scott

“She saw the children. They have been given viruses to educate them. From three weeks old they could speak and do basic arithmetic. By…

— Geoff Ryman

“She was such a little girl that one did not expect to see such a look on her small face. It would have been…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Most of her feelings she deemed insubstantial and she sent them packing with barely a nod of recognition. But her feelings for her daughter…

— Cathleen Schine

“She secretly regarded her children as marvellous, even while she laughed down their youthful conceit and punished their naughtiness.”

— Kathleen Thompson Norris

“That would be Suzanne, who had started speaking complicated sentences at ten months and may have been about eight years old when she was…

— Melinda Rathjen

“Stories of her children when they were small, their round little bodies barely containing their personalities, which bloomed and glittered and melted into her.”

— Erica Bauermeister

“The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter.”

— Anita Diamant

“No longer did she look like a shy little maid who was trained to censor her thought before it reached her mouth. These past…

— Kien Nguyen