#childhood

People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, "If this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about a million chickens on it." They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could. ↗

— Heather O'Neill

#growing-up #maturity #age

I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie. ↗

— Rachel Dratch

#could #fantasy #i #i think #jewish

I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#bit #childhood #ella #i #i write

One thing that is almost always said to me is, I grew up with you. They are meeting me and feel that they actually grew up with me. I was with them during their play hours and thinking hours. I was a part of their childhoods. That's one of the most amazing things. ↗

— Mark Goddard

#almost #always #amazing #amazing things #childhoods

The most important influence in my childhood was my father. ↗

— DeForest Kelley

#childhood #father #important #influence #most

If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#dwell #essentially #had #happy #happy childhood

The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses. ↗

— Anselm Kiefer

#around #bricks #buildings #built #childhood

Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood. ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#childhood #different #different people #experiences #gives

By the time Cheryl Hersha came to the facility, knowledge of multiple personality was so complete that doctors understood how the mind separated into distinct ego states,each unaware of the other. First, the person traumatized had to be both extremely intelligent and under the age of seven, two conditions not yet understood though remaining consistent as factors. The trauma was almost always of a sexual nature…” p52 ↗

— Cheryl Hersha

#childhood-abuse #childhood-trauma #dissociation #government-corruption #government-cover-ups

I had a marvelously happy childhood. ↗

— Darius Milhaud

#had #happy #happy childhood #i #marvelously