Douglas Coupland Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective. Sometimes I'd just like to mace them. I want to tell them that I envy their upbringings that were so clean, so free of futurelessness. And I want to throttle them for blindly handing over the world to us like so much skid-marked underwear.

  Douglas Coupland

  Giving, Envy, Perspective

• This was not a good idea coming home for Christmas. I'm too old. Years ago, coming back from schools or trips, I always expected some sort of new perspective or fresh insight about the family on returning. That doesn't happen anymore-the days of revelation about my parents, at least, are over... its time to move on. I think we'd all appreciate that.

  Douglas Coupland

  Moving, Home, School

• The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.

  Douglas Coupland

  Opposites, Parent, Trying

• SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.

  Douglas Coupland

  Hurt, Emotional, Safety

  "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture". Book by Douglas Coupland, 1991.

• Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective.

  Douglas Coupland

  Giving, Perspective, Parent

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.120, Hachette UK

• I am reminded that no matter how hard you try, you can never be more than twelve years old with your parents. Parents earnestly try not to inflame, but their comments contain no scale and a strange focus. Discussing your private life with parents is like misguidedly looking at a zit in a car's rearview mirror and being convinced, in the absence of contrast or context, that you have developed combined heat rash and skin cancer.

  Douglas Coupland

  Cancer, Years, Mirrors

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