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I am an only child, so I relate to the intensity of that single-parent, mother-daughter relationship.

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.

How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?

It's quite difficult for a parent to know that their daughter is in great danger.

I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.

Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.

The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.

We all work hard to understand the dynamic relationship we have with a parent.