#ren

I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children. ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

#children #concerns #environment #expressed #financial

To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you wanted. People weren't going to judge you. ↗

— Michael Imperioli

#acting school #felt #first #first time #freedom

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#communist party #cuban #extremely #founders #grew

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. ↗

— Jane Austen

#dignity #elizabeth-bennet #empowerment #fear #independence

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#education #judgement #mentoring #reasoning #education

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. ↗

— Jane Austen

#double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism #flattery

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#inspirational #life #parents #family

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#god #parents #family

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#empowerment #flaws #freedom #gender #identity

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#children #fairy-tales #intelligence