“You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian.” ThinkingChildrenMotherFatherSonDaughterMy FamilyAbuseChild AbuseBrutalAttacking Author:Lynn Johnston
“And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.” PlayCharacterFatherAbilityInstrumentsMusicalComicCharmComedicMusical Instruments Author:Lynn Johnston
“If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper.” IfsLooksBookSchoolFatherSexPaperDrawsCuriousPortraitsYearbook Author:Lynn Johnston
