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childhood approval adults
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. C. S. Lewis
childhood disease literature
Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood. Jane Yolen
childhood fundamentals conditions
The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness. Jane Smiley
childhood aging
The old are in a second childhood. Aristophanes
childhood comforting remember
The local shepherd, I vividly remember his old Barbour jacket, with a hipflask in the pocket. It just feels very familiar - like part of my childhood. The smell of the wax. Whenever I put one on now, it just feels comforting. Sam Heughan
childhood lucky
I'm very lucky. I had a great childhood.
childhood independence adults
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. Sonia Sotomayor
childhood heroines
My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them. Sophie Kinsella
childhood miserable folks
If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life. Tim Conway