A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.

To resist the social pressure now put even on one’s leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about going one’s own way, than ever before.

I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.

Being a ‘good’ parent is more about the parent, and, less about the ‘supposedly-could-have-been-bad’ child.

A broken soul doesn’t invest in boundaries because the world has crossed them, without mercy.

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you’ve trained them.

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy…

When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.

We’re freaks, the two of us, Franny and I. I’m a twenty-five-year-old freak and she’s a twenty-one-year-old freak, and both those bastards are responsible. I swear to you, I could murder them both without batting...

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.

[The wives of powerful noblemen] must be highly knowledgeable about government, and wise – in fact, far wiser than most other such women in power. The knowledge of a baroness must be so comprehensive that...

On ne naît pas femme: on le devient.

In fact, the mothers of all her girl friends impressed on their daughters the necessity of being helpless, clinging, doe-eyed creatures. Really, it took alot of sense to cultivate and hold such a pose.

Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bran

When the gardeners are good, the flower will bloom.

Everything depends on upbringing.

Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men.

It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.

I have heard that, with some persons, temperance – that is, moderation – is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil (which some have doubted), no one will deny that excess is a greater....

For Parents: Never blame or scold a child for their first mistake after all family is the first school from where a child learns.

I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let...

Tatlo ang magulang ng henerasyon natin. Ang tatay, ang nanay, at ang mga patalastas o media. Kaya kung mahina yung dalawang nauna, naagawan sila ng ikatlo sa pagpapalaki sa bata.

Self-esteem wasn’t the issue for my parents or their parents. Survival was their primary goal.

Her upbringing had given her an independence of mind that made her more like a girl of today than one of her own time – which was why she had walked out, and why she...

Mr Cobb would acquaint him, that when he was his age, his father thought no more of giving him a parental kick, or a box on the ears, or a cuff on the head, or...

I grew up in an environment where the onus of raising a child was not on the parents alone but of the entire community. The logic is in that a child who becomes a burden...

There’s a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch . . . I am sure that horrid matter-of-fact child-rearers . . ....

My sister’s bringing up had made me sensitive. In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. It...