Parental Authority Quotes:

I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.

- Grace Jones

topic: Clothes, Matter, Faces, Parental Authority

Parents can learn that parental authority doesn't depend on knowing everything. The more you pretend, the more risk that it'll be traumatic and damaging to the kids and their relationship with you when they find out the truth.

- Seymour Papert

source: Source: www.sfgate.com

topic: Kids, Knowing Everything, Parent, Parental Authority

[Parental] authority must be tempered...with loving kindness and patient encouragement. To temper authority with kindness is to triumph in the struggle which belongs to your duty as parents...All those who would advantageously rule over others, must as an essential element, first dominate themselves, their passions, their impressions.

- Pope Pius XII

topic: Encouragement, Kindness, Struggle, Parental Authority, Loving Kindness

The only parental authority I had was the studio. When I was a star, there was always somebody with me, to guard me. I was not allowed to be photographed with a cigarette, a drink, a cup of coffee or even a glass of water because someone might think it was liquor. When I left the studio I was already married and had two children, but I felt as sad as a child leaving home for the first time.

- June Allyson

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Stars, Children, Coffee, Leaving Home, Parental Authority

Beware of the manipulativeness of rich students who were neglected by their parents. They love to turn the campus into hysterical psychodramas of sexual transgression, followed by assertions of parental authority and concern. And don't look for sexual enlightenment from academe, which spews out mountains of books but never looks at life directly.

- Camille Paglia

topic: Book, Parent, Enlightenment, Parental, Parental Authority