intergenerational conflicts Quotes

That's for calling your father a fool. It may be true, but it's disrespectful. Brian Fraser to teenage Jamie

Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways.

Karachi captures all of those rifts between ancient and modern, communal and individual. You see them playing out in people's lives.

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap

I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.

Parenting changes your life, it changes how you hear yourself in relationship to others - which is part of the reason that a bunch of people in the rock community are sick of the goodwill and positive energy and love between these 45-year-old musicians who they preferred when they were 25 and taking stabs at each other.

Children consider disliking their parents natural, but if the dislike is returned, they are outraged.

When I was a teenager, for the most part, I had a really great, easy relationship with my mom, but there are those occasional mom/daughter things that are unavoidable. That's what makes it more upsetting and more true to life. We have great moments, and then we have terrible moments as well.

Safe from the Neighbors is a novel of unusual richness and depth, one that's as wise about the small shocks within a marriage as it is about the troubled history of Mississippi. Steve Yarbrough is a formidably talented novelist, shuttling between the past and present with a grace that feels effortless.

I suppose, mother-in-laws are frightening figures. Especially, more so for mother-in-laws to be.