Quotes by Jeannette Walls

About Jeannette Walls:

Jeannette Walls is an American writer and journalist widely known as former gossip columnist for MSNBC.com — and author of The Glass Castle, a memoir of the nomadic family life of her childhood, which stayed on the New York Times Best Seller list for 100 weeks.
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You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

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Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are

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What doesn't kill you will make you stronger

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You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man

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Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.

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You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.

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It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

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You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

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Once you go on welfare it changes you. Even if you get off welfare, you never escape the stigma that you were a charity case. You're scarred for life.

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Don't you make fun of me or my children! Some babies are premature. Mine were all postmature. That's why they're so smart. Their brains had longer to develop.

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No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.

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People worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you. It immunized your body and soul...

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Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.

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Those shining stars, he liked to point out, were one of the special treats for people like us who lived out in the wilderness. Rich city folks, he'd say, lived in fancy apartments, but their air was so polluted they couldn't even see the stars. We'd ...

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Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

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Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul, and that was why she ignored us kids when we cried. Fussing over children who cry only encourag...

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If you had weak eyes, they needed exercise to get strong. Glasses were like crutches. They prevented people with feeble eyes from seeing the world on their own.

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[Mom] said she didn't want her youngest daughter dressed in the thrift-store clothes the rest of us wore. Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting. "Isn't that a sin?" I asked Mom. "Not exactly," Mom said. "God doesn't mind you bending the rules a...

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It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.

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You should never hate anyone, not even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You had to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

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New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.

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Author Bio

  • NameJeannette Walls
  • DescriptionAmerican writer and journalist
  • BornApril 21, 1960
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Journalist
  • WorksThe Glass Castle; Half Broke Horses