“I thought I was the center of the world and that my parents had nothing to do with me, and I regret that. I wish I had been a little kinder to my family and been friends with them and let them into my life and shared with them the things I was doing rather than feel like I needed to do my life in secret.” WorldFeelsLittlesWishParentSecretRegretNeededMy FamilyI RegretKinderCenter Of The World Author:Jason Mraz
“I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don't, if you put them first, they never thank you. You'll never get a word of thanks from them.” IfsFirstsLastsSecretMy FamilyDecidedThanksNeglectBenevolent Author:Barry Humphries
“It's no secret that my family was very, very poor, and I don't want that for my life or my children's life certainly. But some might say I could relax a bit more and know that that's not going to happen to me. I'm not going to end up in a car.” KnowsWantChildrenEndsMightHappensBitsPoorSecretCarMy FamilyMy ChildrenRelax Author:Anne Heche
“Growing up, my family wasn't very tight. We were more like a tour group with secrets.” SecretGrowing UpGrowingGroupsMy Family Author:Dennis Miller
“I got stopped in front of the bras in Victoria's Secret; I get interrogated in airport bathrooms. I went to South Africa in January to see my family, and even there people would stop me and ask, "Sasha, who's A?" Even my grandma.” PeopleAsksSecretFrontsMy FamilySouthSouth AfricaBathroomAirportsGrandmaJanuaryVictoriaBrasMy GrandmaVictoria's Secret Author:Sasha Pieterse
“I feel like I've been lucky that I've never been put in a situation where I had to keep a serious secret. But what is true of me - and has to be true of everyone who's ever been in a family - is that our idealization of reality when we're children always has to fall apart. It's the narratives we didn't know about that pop up and redraw reality. You have to be able to integrate secrets into who you are. My family does not look now like it does when I was a kid. There was divorce. There were family secrets. There was definitely a difference between what I thought was true and what was true.” ChildrenRealityKidsFallSecretSituationSeriousLuckyMy FamilyWho You AreDivorceBeing TrueFalling ApartIntegrating Author:Patrick Somerville
“If I had been a different sort of person, maybe less impressionable, less intense, less fearful, less utterly dependent upon the perceptions of others - maybe then I would not have bought the cultural party line that thinness is the be-all and end-all of goals. Maybe if my family had not been in utter chaos most of the time, maybe if my parents were a little better at dealing with their own lives maybe if I'd gotten help sooner, or if I'd gotten different help, maybe if I didn't so fiercely cherish my secret, or if I were not such a good liar, or were not quite so empty inside... maybe.” IfsLittlesPersonsDifferentEndsHelpingParentGoalLinesPartySecretPerceptionMy FamilyEmptyChaosIntenseDependentLiarsCherishFearfulImpressionableThinnessPerception Of OthersGood Liar Author:Marya Hornbacher
“And now we're apart and you're just some stranger who knows all my secrets and all my family members and all my quirks and flaws and it doesn't make sense.” KnowsLoveLifeSecretMembersMy FamilyStrangerMake SenseFlawsFamily MembersQuirks Author:Gaby Dunn