“Sad state to spend your life in. Being afraid of your own self." Rex Walls” — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
Once you go on welfare it changes you. Even if you get off welfare, you never escape the stigma that you were… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“Life's too short to worry about what other people think... Anyway, they should accept us for who we are.” — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“Life's too short to worry about what other people think,'' Mom said.''Anyway, they should accept us for who we are.” — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“Most important thing in life," he would say, "is learning how to fall.” — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you. And you can't avoid danger. It's there. The world is a… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“Dad's death didn't hollow me out the way Helen's had. After all, everyone had assumed Dad was a goner back when he… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
Sometimes something catastrophic can occur in a split second that changes a person's life forever; other times one minor incident can lead… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
Dad was a philosopher and had what he called his Theory of Purpose, which held that everything in life had a purpose,… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even people who seemed to have it… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“The place where you live - your home - is one of the most important things in a body's life.” — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“For the first time in our lives, we were living on the backs of others, but that was how you got ahead… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more. — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
What's wrong with social climbing? What's wrong with trying to improve your lot in life? And if you do, what happens if… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“I felt there was a lot I needed to teach her. I wanted to give her an early grounding in the basics… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“You should never hate anyone, not even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You had to find the redeeming quality and… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
With a complicated childhood, you can either focus on the positive or the negative, and I chose to focus on the positive. — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people. — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“If you want to live in the farmland, haul your sorry hide off to Pennsylvania.” — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“I WAS SITTING IN a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out the window and saw Mom rooting… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
I had the big shoulders; I had the big hair. I loved the '80s. It was all about power women. — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
Things usually work out in the end." "What if they don't?" "That just means you haven't come to the end yet. — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“That was the way man was meant to live, he’d say, in harmony with the wild, like the Indians, not this lords-of-the-earth crap, trying… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential. — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“Don’t be afraid of your dark places,” Mom told her. “If you can shine a light on them, you’ll find treasure there.” — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
I hate Erma," I told Mom... "You have to show compassion for her..." She added that you should never hate anyone, even your worst… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
