"Having to parent your mother or father is……" — Laurie Halse Anderson

Having to parent your mother or father is a challenge that way… - Laurie Halse Anderson

"Having to parent your mother or father is a challenge that way too many teens have to deal with. Teens whose parents are dealing with substance abuse, financial hardship, job loss, mental illness and divorce deserve our love, support, and compassion. I wish America would stop judging and criticizing teens and instead, try to understand the battles they have to fight every day."

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Abuse Quotes America Quotes Battle Quotes Battles Quotes Challenge Quotes Challenges Quotes Compassion Quotes Criticize Quotes Criticizing Quotes Criticizing Teens Quotes Day Quotes Deal Quotes Dealing Quotes Deals Quotes Deserve Quotes Deserve Our Love Quotes Divorce Quotes Every Day Quotes Father Quotes Fight Quotes Fight Every Quotes Fighting Quotes Financial Quotes Financial Hardship Quotes Hardship Quotes I Wish Quotes Illness Quotes Instead Quotes Instead Try Quotes Job Quotes Job Loss Quotes Jobs Quotes Judging Quotes Loss Quotes Love Quotes Love Support Quotes Many Quotes Mental Quotes Mental Illness Quotes Mother Quotes Our Love Quotes Parent Quotes Parents Quotes Stop Quotes Stop Judging Quotes Substance Quotes Substance Abuse Quotes Support Quotes Teens Quotes Too Quotes Try Quotes Trying Quotes Understand Quotes Way Quotes Wish Quotes Wish America Quotes Your Mother Quotes

219 Quotes by Laurie Halse Anderson

Laurie Halse Anderson has 219 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

See all 219 quotes by Laurie Halse Anderson »

More Abuse Quotes

This quote is filed under Abuse Quotes, one of 1,213 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be… — Hannah Arendt
Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale… — Bob Barr
I want to say that nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification to do that. I didn't just… — Roseanne Barr
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. — John Adams
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it… — Jean Baudrillard
We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the… — Carol Bellamy
What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings… — Ezra Taft Benson
When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I… — Bjork
Democracy is an abuse of statistics. — Jorge Luis Borges
The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing… — Anthony Bourdain
And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I… — Jo Brand
I've never, ever had people being aggressive to me in public or abusing me, and actually quite a lot of… — Jo Brand

See all 1,213 Abuse Quotes »