Jeannette Walls

One of the blessings of my childhood was being a fighter and a scrapper, but being a fighter and a scrapper is…

— Jeannette Walls

“People say that when you return to the place where you grew up, it always seems smaller than you remember. ...but I…

— Jeannette Walls

“give it back, so Mom got into a big argument with the head of the”

— Jeannette Walls

“I told Mom that maybe I had made a terrible mistake, but mom said sometimes you have to get sicker before you…

— Jeannette Walls

You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid…

— Jeannette Walls

“Just remember,” Mom said after examining the blisters, “what doesn’t kill you will make you stronger.” “If that was true, I’d be…

— Jeannette Walls

“I took a breath. “He’s developing a technology to”

— Jeannette Walls

The way Mom saw it, women should let menfolk do the work because it made them feel more manly. That notion only…

— Jeannette Walls

Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you are young is good for you, she said. It…

— Jeannette Walls

I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.

— Jeannette Walls

“By then we had passed through the small town beyond the Bar None Bar. Dad was driving and smoking with one hand…

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“[Mom] said she didn't want her youngest daughter dressed in the thrift-store clothes the rest of us wore. Mom told us we…

— Jeannette Walls

“I realized that you can get so used to certain luxuries that you start to think they’re necessities, but when you have…

— Jeannette Walls

Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito

— Jeannette Walls

[Optimism] acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy.

— Jeannette Walls

I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again.

— Jeannette Walls

“If you get down, all you need to do is act like you're feeling good, and next thing you know, you are.”

— Jeannette Walls

Look at the way you live. You've sold out. Next thing I know you'll become a Republican." She shook her head. "Where…

— Jeannette Walls

“The place where you live - your home - is one of the most important things in a body's life.”

— Jeannette Walls

Horses are a mirror of who you are. They're emotionally dependent on you.

— Jeannette Walls

And as soon as the Internet hit and people started having their own web sites, I realized that people who did what…

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All seasons have something to offer

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“We stopped under a railroad bridge and got out of the car to admire the river that ran through the town.”

— Jeannette Walls

“That was the thing to remember about all monsters, Dad said: They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them…

— Jeannette Walls

“For the first time in our lives, we were living on the backs of others, but that was how you got ahead…

— Jeannette Walls