Backsides Quote by Marina Lewycka

My mom died when I was 22. My stepfather, who I loved like a father, pretty quickly got involved with another woman. Suddenly there…

— Cheryl Strayed

I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she…

— Joan Lingard

My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.

— Lillian Hellman

My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty,…

— Jill Lepore

My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the 60s. When the marriage fell apart,…

— Lisa Bonet

My father died when I was 9 years old. The miserable condition of my family at that time is beyond description. My family, solitary…

— Chiang Kai-shek

I remember seeing my father shaving my mother's head in the bathroom after her chemo treatments; It was so traumatizing.

— Normani Kordei

My mama died when she was 35 years old.

— The-Dream

Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I'd lost my father…

— Ann Hood

My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful mother, Elsa,…

— Joan Collins

It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt)

— Sylvia Plath

Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went from an urban…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson