Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
"Once you go on welfare it changes you. Even if you get off welfare, you never escape the stigma that you were a charity case. You're scarred for life."
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"Once you go on welfare it changes you. Even if you get off welfare, you never escape the stigma that you were a charity case. You're scarred for life."
Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
"You know you're down and out when Okies laugh at you,' she said. With our garbage bag taped window, our tied down hood, and art supplies strapped to the roof, we'd out-Okied the Okies."
Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
"You're in a horse race but you're thinking like a sheep. Sheep don't win horse races."
Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
"If you had weak eyes, they needed exercise to get strong. Glasses were like crutches. They prevented people with feeble eyes from seeing the world on their own."
Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
"Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul, and that was why she ignored us kids when we cried. Fussing over children who cry only encouraged them, she told us. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior."
Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
"We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa myth and got nothing for Christmas but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. "Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten," Dad said, "you'll still have your stars."
Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
"Those shining stars, he liked to point out, were one of the special treats for people like us who lived out in the wilderness. Rich city folks, he'd say, lived in fancy apartments, but their air was so polluted they couldn't even see the stars. We'd have to be out of our minds to want to trade places with any of them."
Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
"Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are"
Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
"It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do."
Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
"You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim"
Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
"You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them,” [Jeannette's mom] said. “You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.”“Oh yeah?” I said. “How about Hitler? What was his redeeming quality?”“Hitler loved dogs,” Mom said without hesitation."
Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
"As awful as he could be, I always knew he loved me in a way no one else ever had."
Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
"You should never hate anyone, not even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You had to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that."
Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
"Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior."
Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
"People worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you. It immunized your body and soul..."
Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
"No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics."
Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
"Don't you make fun of me or my children! Some babies are premature. Mine were all postmature. That's why they're so smart. Their brains had longer to develop."
Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
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