294 Quotes by Jeannette Walls

I didn't have indoor plumbing. I'd go to school dirty. I didn't have lunches.

So many people ask, 'How could you forgive your mother for the way you were raised?' It's really not forgiveness, in my opinion. It's acceptance. She's never going to be the sort of mother who wants to take care of me.

Once I became the editor of the school newspaper, I had a key to the school, and I went to the school cafeteria and just took the food they threw away.

One of the blessings of my childhood was being a fighter and a scrapper, but being a fighter and a scrapper is a curse, too.

Taking care of myself is central to my personality. I'm pathologically independent. There's no doubt that's one reason I never had children.

And as soon as the Internet hit and people started having their own web sites, I realized that people who did what I did, our positions were being threatened because, as journalists, we were the conduits between the celebrities and the public.

Donald Trump really understood how to float a story, how to float a rumor, how to manipulate the truth.

With a complicated childhood, you can either focus on the positive or the negative, and I chose to focus on the positive.

I loved 'Casablanca.' You know, right vs. wrong. I think I like a movie where there is a victory, right over wrong, but there's always some price to be paid.