"Children of the mentally ill learn early on……" — Mira Bartok
"Children of the mentally ill learn early on how not to be a bother, especially if they grew up with neglect. As my sister insisted once, when she was in severe pain after injuring her ankle, 'This isn't me! This is not who I am!"
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10 Quotes by Mira Bartok
Mira Bartok has 10 quotes on this site.
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My dog, Ginger, is jumpy-like me-sensitive to sound and sudden movement. She wasn't that way at first, but not long…
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We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them,…
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I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of…
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We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is…
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Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the…
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Who am I, then, if my memory is impaired?
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Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Stein’s memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the author’s…
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Cheryl Strayed reminds us, in her lyrical and courageous memoir Wild, of what it means to be fully alive, even…
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Eloquent and moving... an extraordinary testament to the enduring power of love - beyond faith and dogma. It reminds us…
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More Ankle Quotes
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one of 101 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it,…
— Chinua Achebe
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I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn…
— Kobe Bryant
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In the summer I wear shorts with a bright top and ankle boots or just sandals. I'll add a nice…
— Alessandra Ambrosio
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Like a sprained ankle boy I aint nothin to play wit
— Drake
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Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour,…
— Roy Blount, Jr.
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We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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I took a whack on my left ankle, but something told me it was my right.
— Unknown Author
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Earnie Shavers could punch you in the neck and break your ankle.
— Randall Cobb
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The year I gave up the 150-catch streak I had an ankle injury and didn't want to go back in…
— Ozzie Newsome
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It's like going to the gym everyday. It really is. I work hard on my craft, I sweat a little…
— Nia Long
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In the past five weeks I've trained hard, trying to get my ankle back to where I want it to…
— Andrew Flintoff
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PETA doesn't want stressed animals to be cruelly crowded into sheds, ankle-deep in their own crap, because they don't want…
— Anthony Bourdain
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