#upbringing

On ne naît pas femme: on le devient. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#birth #education #gender #gender-realization #upbringing

On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#been #conflict #constantly #family #family life

You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#both #dad #even #great #guidance

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing. ↗

— James MacArthur

#insisted #mother #normal #upbringing

Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church. ↗

— John McGahern

#gratitude #i #nothing #though #upbringing

Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made helpless even to live. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

#activity #been #being #channel #crippled

As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#child #did #ever #hand #i

Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing. ↗

— Joseph Stefano

#had #hitch #i #ideas #interested