#rents

During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#difficult #divorce #during #enjoyed #first

My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass. ↗

— Jimmy Fallon

#backyard #basketball #bikes #bought #christmas

Just as verbally and physically abused children internalize blame, so do incest victims. However, in incest, the blame is compounded by the shame. The belief that ‘it’s all my fault’ is never more intense than with the incest victim. This belief fosters strong feelings of self-loathing and shame. In addition to having somehow to cope with the actual incest, the victim must now guard against being caught and exposed as a ‘dirty, disgusting’ person ↗

— Susan Forward

#belief #children #depression #family #fearful

My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#attending #become #could #crafts #director

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#author #come #contemporary #currents #experience

A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents. ↗

— Raj Kapoor

#feels #her #heritage #his #leans

Once, he was chosen to play Ram in a small Ramleela company, but his parents were against it. ↗

— Raj Kapoor

#chosen #company #his #once #parents

I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L' out of me. ↗

— Bil Keane

#bill #cartoons #drawing #i #knocked

My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that. ↗

— Anna Kendrick

#age #auditions #broadway #bug #called

And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#church #definitely #duty #educational #felt