From childhood to adolescence, girls face mixed messages about displaying power and authority. — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
“I missed my mother and Elysius. It wasn't that I wanted them with me at that very moment. I wanted them in… — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
My early childhood was notable by an absence of proper meals and highly processed food. — Ulrika Jonsson Copy Share Image
A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay. — Mae West Copy Share Image
War and tooth enameled salted lemon childhoods All colors run, none of us solid Don't look for shadow behind me I carry… — Suheir Hammad Copy Share Image
Winnie the Pooh was such a part of my childhood. My kindergarten was named Pooh Corner, after one of A.A. Milne's collections… — Alex Lawther Copy Share Image
I spent much of my childhood on stations up north, loving that life and with many, many special memories, and so the… — Gina Rinehart Copy Share Image
Taking walks sometimes bring back memories of my childhood because a smell might trigger a memory. — King Diamond Copy Share Image
In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
My self-esteem had been crushed through years of childhood bullying and serious abuses, which would take me decades to overcome. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
“Our childhood is too brief to fill it with activities that stifle our spirit and rob our joy.” — Richard Blackaby Copy Share Image
I say parenting is like maths sum. You take one step, and your child takes another. — Paritoshik Sharma Copy Share Image
I had a very nice, cozy childhood. I did lots of plays at school and worked with the National Youth Theatre as… — Lucy Punch Copy Share Image
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
He loved telling stories. He had been everywhere in the world. The northwest frontier, the landscape of the Hindu Kush, was one… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“I tried to show him things, but he didn't seem to study what I showed him. Usually, he just put whatever I… — John Elder Robison Copy Share Image
Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood which I felt I had to control,… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“Impossible to say why childhood joy ends with such finality in so many things.” — Dave Franklin Copy Share Image
A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
There are vivid memories from my childhood - what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
