Best Stepchild Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The answer to the question ‘How many children do you have?’ and the one to the question ‘How many children are you raising?’ are not identical in all cases: some men are not taking care of their own children, some are knowingly or unknowingly raising other men’s children, and some do not even know that they each have a child, another child, or other children.”

“Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those of us not smart enough to understand the facts of the real world. Spirituality reflects the most sophisticated mindset, and the most powerful force available for the transformation of human suffering.”

Source: Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment

“Some children are each loved by their stepparent, but not by their biological parent … or parents.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Have you ever considered that the wedding that carries such positive memories for you may have had a very different meaning for your stepson or daughter? On your wedding day, he watched his father marry someone other than his mother, officially ending the family he once knew.”

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Book:16 Gifts From a Stepmom

Source: 16 Gifts From a Stepmom

“Dance is the stepchild of the arts.”

Art Dance Stepchild

Book:Push Comes to Shove

Source: Push Comes to Shove

“I discovered, quite early in motherhood, that the longest and most painful deliveries occur when you give birth to stepchildren.”

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Book:The memoirs of Bambi Goldbloom, or, Growing up in New Jersey

Source: The memoirs of Bambi Goldbloom, or, Growing up in New Jersey

“We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents.”

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Author:Rick Riordan

“Being a stepmother has worked out very well for me. I love my stepchildren very much.”

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Author:Philippa Gregory

“Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you should. Everyoneneeds time to adjust to the new family, adults included. There is no such thing as an "instant parent." Actually, no concrete object lies outside of the poetic sphere as long as the poet knows how to use the object properly.”

“Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.”

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Book:The Tale of Genji

Source: The Tale of Genji

“Yeah, but before anything, I think in 6 years somehow I've grown up to have a beautiful home, 2 beautiful stepchildren, a beautiful husband, my family is healthy and happy. I'm financially ok and I do what I love for a living. That's what I think, and I think god, how did I get so lucky.”

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Author:Angelina Jolie

“If God is love, then God has no stepchildren to love.”

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Author:John Henrik Clarke

“All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'”

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Author:Marilyn Monroe

“The term bisexual has ended up as the ugly stepchild of sexuality, in both name and meaning. Its fate is symptomatic of the bisexual's own lot in life: to be as common as can be, but unacknowledged.”

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Book:Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics

Source: Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics

“The biggest challenge in my life is getting all these kids raised. I've helped with nieces, stepchildren and my own son, so the biggest challenge is making sure the kids are raised and finding enough quality time with them.”

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Author:Reba McEntire

“I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren.”

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Author:Ellen Barkin

“I’ve held onto Ugg boots. I will never graduate to Crocs, but Ugg boots are always and forever. That’s my fashion stepchild.”

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Author:Johnny Weir

“The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.”

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Author:Jill Paton Walsh

“Dastardly devious, cleverly conceived, and just a whole lot of fun to read, DEATH PERCEPTION is Lee Allen Howard on fire and at his finest. Rife with winsome weirdness, it's like the mutant stepchild of Carl Hiaasen and Stephen King, mixing a truly unique paranormal coming-of-age story with a quirky cast of offbeat noir characters into a novel that's simply unforgettable... and hilariously original. A supernatural crime story, blazing with creative intrigue... don't miss it.”

“Sleep: the stepchild of Death.”

Sleep Stepchild

Book:The Sonja Blue Novels Books 1–4: Sunglasses After Dark, In the Blood, Paint It Black, and A Dozen Black Roses

Source: The Sonja Blue Novels Books 1–4: Sunglasses After Dark, In the Blood, Paint It Black, and A Dozen Black Roses

“Slowly ... the truth is dawning upon women, and still more slowly upon men, that woman is no stepchild of nature, no Cinderella of fate to be dowered only by fairies and the Prince; but that for her and in her, as truly as for and in man, life has wrought its great experiences, its master attainments, its supreme human revelations of the stuff of which worlds are made.”

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Book:Woman's Share in Social Culture

Source: Woman's Share in Social Culture

“Religion is the retarded stepchild of philosophy.”

Philosophy Retarded Stepchild

Author:Frank Mir

“I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would be easier if you didnt exist.”

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Author:Jennifer Egan

“I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.”

Gone Stepchild Stepchildren

Author:Daryl Hall

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