Quote by Frances Hodgson Burnett

“The first children of my age that I knew were in kindergarten. They seemed very strange, they laughed and talked and seemed happy. I…

— Charles Bukowski

“I wasn't exactly good with children. I wasn't bad with them, as such. I just wasn't around them much and, because of that, when…

— Kristen Ashley

“Someone once told me that they didn't like me very much. I smiled and replied, "That's okay. For a long time, I didn't like…

— Mishi McCoy

“Children were very cruel and made fun of me. I could tell you many stories of times I was treated badly, and although the…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“I realized in the silence that followed that I hadn't spoken a single word -- and even though I laughed with them, it felt…

— John Green

“I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words so they wouldn't sound dumb, and I hated how it…

— John Green

“That was other thing I hated about kids; they always said the exact things that deep down you already knew, would never admit, and…

— Cecelia Ahern

“I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way…

— John Green

“Nobody talks around here," she said. "We all pretend to, but we never really do." She pointed to the television. "We're like the people…

— Michael Thomas Ford

“I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.”

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“But in truth, I think she’s always had more problems with children than she’d ever admit. I think, in fact, she hates them. There’s…

— Gillian Flynn

“I was also domineering, impatient, relentlessly verbal, and, as an only child, often baffled by the mores of other kids. I was not a…

— Ariel Levy