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75d8bc1 Everything depends on upbringing. upbringing Leo Tolstoy
6b64257 On ne nait pas femme: on le devient. women education gender-realization birth upbringing gender Simone de Beauvoir
fb5e605 It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible. upbringing mistakes children T.H. White
aa427b0 My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin. motherhood family education inspirational-love upbringing mother Maya Angelou
2b19f2e 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 an eyelash. The great teachers. The great emancipators. My God. I can't even sit down to lunch with a man any more and hold up my end of a decent conversation. I either get so bored or so goddamn preachy that if the son of a bitch had any sense, he'd break his chair over my head self-awareness upbringing J.D. Salinger
4e80fcc My mother had told me to never be afraid to apologize when I was wrong. She had said it would have saved her and my father a great deal of trouble if they had only followed that rule. Then she had sighed, and added that I must never think that an apology could completely erase what I had done or said. Still, it was worth trying. upbringing Robin Hobb
984e3a9 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 was not daunted by the prospect of being alone. independence sally-lockhart upbringing Philip Pullman
ea172d0 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. over-indulgence upbringing mother contempt Anne Brontë
10b9568 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 a lot of sense to cultivate and hold such a pose. women upbringing helplessness ladies Margaret Mitchell
057ec33 It is almost impossible to shake of one's earliest training. Duke, can you get it through your skull that had you been brought up by Martians, you would have the same attitude toward eating and being eaten as Mike has. nature truth nurture upbringing Robert A. Heinlein
2603fec Still, it seemed to us that the main reason we were hated must be that we always lived by stealing. From the earliest times, rats lived around the edges of human cities and farms, stowed away on men's ships, gnawed holes in their floors and stole their food. Sometimes we were accused of biting human children; I didn't believe that, nor did any of usunless it was some kind of a subnormal rat, bred in the worst of city slums. And that, of course, can happen to people, too. upbringing rats Robert C. O'Brien
78fa95b This Captain had been brought up in Istanbul. His mind was made of minarets and domes. He capped himself with spacious ease. He was his own call to prayer. turkey istanbul upbringing Jeanette Winterson
5dedf84 Usually bullies have severe mothers and bad fathers, and they are usually frightened of them. That is why they are bullies, I think. There is something wrong at home. I have found that with children in general and this applies to men as well. upbringing Alexander McCall Smith