“I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.” KidsMotherNamesHellChildhoodInfatuationCuban Author:Yul Vazquez
“My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.” HellToo MuchSkyAtheismChildhoodSorrowAngryPositive AtheismGhostSatanDreadDeitiesDeep SorrowWhooping CoughColic Author:George Eliot
“I was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot of my childhood and early adolescence. So when you have an unfulfilled dream like that, when years later you find yourself in a position to make a graphic novel - hell yeah, I'm going to do that.” YearsBookDreamKidsWantedNovelHellChildhoodPositionSeriousDrawsYeahComicFinding YourselfAdolescenceComic BookGraphicCollectorsGraphic NovelsUnfulfilled DreamsHell Yeah Author:Anthony Bourdain
“During my childhood years in a Catholic school, one teacher who was more nuts than the rest told me I'd fry in hell if I were a lesbian so I thought maybe the best idea was to be straight.” IfsYearsIdeasSchoolHellTeacherChildhoodCatholicBeing The BestNutsCatholic School Author:Olof Arnalds
“I think the category of perpetual adolescence, it's a new thing, and it's a dangerous thing. Adolescence is a pretty glorious concept. It's about intentionally transitioning from childhood to adulthood. Being stuck in adolescence - that's a hell. Peter Pan is a dystopia, and we forget that.” ThinkingForgetHellChildhoodDangerousStuckGloriousAdulthoodAdolescenceDystopia Author:Benjamin E. Sasse
“The obsession with food filled my childhood - that's what happens when your parents are from a place or time where people really might starve. In America, my Jordanian father spent decades cooking professionally and pursuing his dream of a restaurant, and it was one of the central ways that he explained himself to his American children. Even though he's a passionate talker, he has a hell of a time with listening. His cooking gave him a way of having a conversation - which was a really interesting thing for a writer to look at.” PeopleChildrenDreamFatherParentInterestingHellChildhoodListeningCookingPassionateObsessionReally Interesting Author:Diana Abu-Jaber
“There are vivid memories from my childhood-what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically because there was no union. I suppose if I wanted to be fair I could say that I'm trying to settle a personal score. I could dramatize it by saying that I want to bring social justice to farm workers. But the truth is that I went through a lot of hell, and a lot of people did. If we can even the score a little for the workers then we are doing something. Besides, I don't know any other work I like to do better than this. I really don't.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantTryingLittlesWantedSocialMemoriesJusticeHellChildhoodConditionsTruth IsLowsCommitmentFairsSocial JusticeUnionsWorkersSettlingScoreFarmsWagesVividVivid Memories Book:An Organizer's Tale: Speeches Source: An Organizer's Tale: Speeches