Difficult Childhood Quotes:

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didnt always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.

- Amy Tan

topic: Mother, Childhood, Should, Difficult Childhood

I had a very difficult childhood. I was surrounded by people who had both parents, which made me feel different. Having a bit of a rougher existence early on, it made me appreciate the work ethic that my grandparents instilled in me.

- George Lopez

topic: People, Appreciate, Grandparent, Difficult Childhood

I had been riding horses before my memory kicked in, so my life with horses had no beginning. It simply appeared from the fog of infancy. I survived a difficult childhood by traveling on the backs of horses, and in adulthood the pattern didn't change.

- Monty Roberts

topic: Horse, Memories, Fog, Difficult Childhood

[A difficult childhood gave me] a kind of cocky confidence. ... I could never have so little that I hadn't had less. It took away my fear.

- Jacqueline Cochran

topic: Cocky, Adversity, Childhood, Difficult Childhood

One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. It always helped me escape from my problems.

- Meg Cabot

source: "Meg Cabot's teen escapism and empowered heroines". Interview with Ashley Strickland, www.cnn.com. May 12, 2011.

topic: Teenage, Writing, Thinking, Difficult Childhood, Teenage Years

I felt differently about her [Gypsy Rose Lee] during every phase of the research and writing process. Often, I felt incredibly sorry for her; she had an extremely difficult childhood and a complicated 'to say the least' relationship with her family, her mother especially.

- Karen Abbott

source: Source: tech.blorge.com

topic: Mother, Sorry, Writing, Difficult Childhood, Research And Writing