“When I was a kid, I used to escape from my family with my imagination, and I kept this spirit into my adult life. This doesn't always happen. All children have imagination, but for some it doesn't carry over.” ChildrenHappensKidsUsedSpiritImaginationAdultsMy FamilyMy Imagination Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet
“No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him.” YearsLittlesFatherFourAdultsMy FamilyFour YearsCousinMy CousinLittle Cousin Author:John Irving
“My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.” MotherAdultsMy FamilyTreatedEccentricUnorthodox Author:Laura Prepon
“By the time I was seventeen, I was on my way to Hollywood and didn't look back. My family is supportive now, but like any adult guardian of a seventeen-year-old daughter, they were not thrilled with my plan to run off to the LA to make it as an actress. Even a somewhat functioning parent would think that was a bad, bad idea. Lucky for me, I didn't listen to them.” ThinkingWayYearsLooksIdeasRunningParentPlansLuckyDaughterAdultsMy FamilyHollywoodActressesMy WaySupportiveGuardianBad IdeasSeventeenSeventeen Years Old Author:Amber Heard
“I sometimes find that my family's emphasis on stories, characters, and art that appeals directly to children rather than over their heads to adults is not fully appreciated by parents who may have more narrowly adult concerns and agendas.” MayChildrenArtSometimesCharacterStoriesParentAdultsConcernMy FamilyAppealsAgendasEmphasisAppreciated Author:Mike Berenstain
“The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.” EndsFeltChildhoodTruth IsAdultsMy FamilyIndependenceExistentialSurvivedUnreliable Book:My Beloved World Source: My Beloved World
“I'm still very connected to my family, to the world I grew up in. I understand what it means to be afraid that you can't pay a doctor's bill. Or to have to make the choice between buying a band uniform for a seventh-grader and making the insurance payment on time. That will never leave me. It was how I lived until I was well into my adult years.” WorldYearsWellsMeanStillsChoicesPayGrewBandGrew UpAdultsMy FamilyDoctorsBillsConnectedBuyingUniformsLeaving MePaymentNever Leave Me Author:Elizabeth Warren
“The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.” DoeYoungCausesAdultsMy FamilyIncrediblesYoung AdultCancerCaringTeenagerTeenage Author:Florence Welch
“In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family - my brother at 30, my daughter at 5.” MotherBrotherDaughterAdultsMy FamilyAngryMy BrotherMy DaughterSudden Death Author:Ann Hood