Children Quotes by Carrie Fisher

10 Children quotes by Carrie Fisher

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Carrie Fisher’s short, witty observations on children capture her trademark humor and candidness. Though the list is brief, each line offers a sharp, relatable glimpse into her take on youth.

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I am not going to put my daughter under any sort of stresses.

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Sex was for men. Marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.

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My mom is a little bit eccentric. I mean, she does - she has a lot of unique ideas. For example, she…

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The parrots are great. They do something I refer to as "the Phone Call from Venus." They repeat all my phone conversations.…

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I rarely think about my childhood. It's a slippery thing I can't keep hold of for long - it slithers out of…

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The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage,…

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Until adolescence I thought I had the best mother in the world. Such a graceful mother. I had this fantasy that I…

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“You know what's funny about death? I mean other than absolutely nothing at all? You'd think we could remember finding out we…

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There are very few women from my mother's generation who worked like that, who just kept a career going all her life…

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“So you see, George Lucas is a sadist. But like any abused child, wearing a metal bikini, chained to a giant slug…

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“If wishes were horses mine would be glue -”

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I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.

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“I thought you might supply some tenderness I lacked But out of all the things I offered you took my breath away and now…

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I have the ability, occasionally, of being able to step out and see who you think I could end up being. And I like…

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He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.

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Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread.

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He doesn't move his face when he talks. His eyes are like shark eyes. Dead.

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“So it stood to reason that if I could disappoint my own father—if I couldn’t get my own father to love me enough to…

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Here's how men think. Sex, work - and those are reversible, depending on age - sex, work, food, sports and lastly, begrudgingly, relationships. And…

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