I think my mother hated me.

do not easily dislike, Sir; but then I do not easily like. And I never will marry any man, to whom I cannot be more than indifferent.

My mother’s feelings were all closed off inside herself…I was allowed to be a part of it, never in a good way, never like mother and daughter.

My mother doesn't like sex. She doesn't like the word, she doesn't like act, and I'm not entirely sure she's too impressed with the results. Ah well, you get out what you put in.

My mother, who disliked me from the bottom of her heart, deliberately did everything, it seemed, that would strengthen and intensify my unbounded passion for freedom and a military life. She wouldn't let me walk in the garden. She wouldn't let me be away from her for even half an hour: I had to sit in her bedroom and make lace. She herself taught me to sew, to knit, and seeing that I had neither the desire nor the ability for this sort of work, that in my hands everything tore or broke, she became angry, lost control of herself, and beat me very painfully on the hands.

If, as I say, I did not love my betrothed, at any rate, I had never loved any other woman.

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.

It would have been easy to dislike her intensely, but I actually felt nothing for her at all.

If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

My whole life has felt like a long deeply unsatisfying love affair with my mother. She is the beloved who doesn't love back.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

He is angry at his mother for not having normal children and making them live a normal life.

Our parents saw each of us marrying, settling down, but certainly not with one another.

I didn’t want to hurt Mom’s feelings, but the past had created rifts that would likely never go away. I never confronted these demands head-on. I never explained to Mom that no matter how nice and caring she was at any given time — and while I had mono, she couldn’t have been a better mother — I just felt uncomfortable around her.