Liberal Upbringing Quotes

My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.

I do take for granted, probably, the fact that I grew up in New York City, one of the most liberal places on earth, with bleeding-heart, liberal parents who took me to see 'Rent' and Terrence McNally plays from a very young age.

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical.

People don't know I've got a deep social conscience. I'm a child of the Depression, born in 1933. My parents were very liberal in their social views.

I had intelligent, high-minded, liberal parents who wanted to make sure my values were just like theirs.

If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.

My mom has always been very open, very liberal. So I grew up with that, and I can appreciate everything that she did and went through and was exposed to.

We grew up in the South, but in a very liberal household - both our parents are from the Northeast.

I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.

I grew up in San Fransisco in a very liberal community. My environment was very, very open and very liberal.

My mum was never strict. I was allowed to go out to clubs underage, watch TV, listen to whatever music I wanted to, and that made me not rebel. I have never touched a drug in my life.

Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.

I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.

I wasn't raised with a specific religion. I wasn't raised to judge people in any way.

I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.

Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.

I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'

I grew up in a very liberal place.

My parents couldn't be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.

My dad has always been the bohemian.

I had a very liberal family.

I had been brought up in an elementary school where, my first few grades, I remember being specifically told that my teachers were gay. I was just that age and that was just how it was, and my parents were very... You know, that's how I was raised. Like super-progressive.

My own background is fairly liberal and so this notion of 'protecting women from outside intrusion' is not in my nature, nor in my upbringing.

I was raised a Catholic, but with very liberal parents, so I had to find my spirituality. I've been looking for it since I was a child. I would find it in pieces of art, music, flowers, trees. Now I've come full circle finding God in clouds, flowers, and trees.

My mum certainly isn't a prude, nor is my brother, so I think I'm lucky to have a family like that.