294 Quotes by Jeannette Walls

Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.

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.

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

If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.

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.

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

What doesn't kill you will make you stronger

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

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