Faith Salie Quotes

I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn't raised properly.

Emotionally damaged men all too often rip apart their own lives, and those of their partners and children. I see both physical fitness and emotional strength as virtues, but they are acquired by entirely different means.

But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

For the first five years of Luca's life, I desperately wanted to be a good mother and not to pass on this trauma and darkness that his father and I had experienced, but there's a danger of suffocating your kids, too.

Children can only take so much, and they deal with it however they can.

I called my mother up and I said, 'You know, I've been to the best doctors in the world and I've spent almost half a million dollars and they're telling me I have symptoms of a P.O.W. and all I did was grow up in your home.'

Sometimes I think we're exposed to things we shouldn't be exposed to too early. I think that sets the tone to a person's whole life. Trauma.

I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.

There is a psychic cost children bear when they grow up in fear.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

I can only hope that neither of my daughters was scarred by their upbringing.

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.

Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.

I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.

When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat.

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.

I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

We ought to regard the breaking of a child's spirit as a sin against humanity.

My mother's feeling about men in general were always a bit of a mystery to me. She had difficulties in Puerto Rico with the men in her life. Her brothers abused her. It's very easy to be judgmental, but more often than not, there are mitigating circumstances, and children are not usually aware of those.

I think kids are amazing. You kind of just deal with stuff, don't you? It's only years later that you have to spend thousands in therapy.

I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages.