Parenting Quote by Jackie Kay

It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood almost invariably…

— Mariella Frostrup

I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.

— Flea

My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia,…

— Dane Cook

My mother had a fear of doctors - other than her daughter marrying one.

— Shelley Berkley

“Many parents had grown wary of confronting their children for fear of being denounced by them, but not my father.”

— Martha Hall Kelly

“Fear was a thing I understood all too well. It was a malignancy that had spread throughout my body until my mother, in her…

— Delores Phillips

“How many young men fear that there is a monster inside them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves. People are supposed to…

— Veronica Roth

“I went on to spend an inordinate amount of my childhood bashfully attached to my mother's pelvis, mostly out of social anxiety, but also…

— Matt Bellassai

“But less so than I did before. Not long ago in my own therapy with Dr. W., we moved gingerly into “imaginal” exposure for…

— Scott Stossel

“A FATHER’S GREATEST FEAR is usually that he won’t be able to provide for his family. A mom’s greatest fear is typically that something…

— Lysa TerKeurst