My sister's bringing up had made me sensitive. In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter. Within myself, I had sustained, from my babyhood, a perpetual conflict with injustice. I had known, from the time when I could speak, that my sister, in her capricious and violent coercion, was unjust to me. I had cherished a profound conviction that her bringing me up by hand, gave her no right to bring me up by jerks. Through all my punishments, disgraces, fasts and vigils, and other penitential performances, I had nursed this assurance; and to my communing so much with it, in a solitary and unprotected way, I in great part refer the fact that I was morally timid and very sensitive.

~ Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens Childhood Fairness Upbringing

Her upbringing had given her an independence of mind that made her more like a girl of today than one of her own time - which was why she had walked out, and why she was not daunted by the prospect of being alone.

~ Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman Alone Independence Sally Lockhart Upbringing

I’ve always known my circumstances were far, far from the worst, but I truly believe that just the slightest misalignment in our upbringings can have such a dramatic knock-on effect on our lives.

~ K.a. Hill

K.a. Hill Circumstances Dramatic Effect Growing Up Misalignment Upbringing Upbringings

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

~ Anne Brontë

Anne Brontë Children Contempt Mother Over Indulgence Upbringing

When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Shannon L. Alder Assumptions Bias Brainwashed Coheresed Critics Guessing Judging Life Experience Life Experiences Limited Knowledge Limited Perspective Not Enough Information Not Knowing Opinions Pressured Upbringing View

A broken soul doesn't invest in boundaries because the world has crossed them, without mercy.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Shannon L. Alder Boundaries Broken Souls Caring Experiences Filters Interactions Lack Of Filters Mercy Molding Behavior Not Caring Setting Boundaries Trauma Upbringing

A child's growth is defined entirely by the adult that raises him.

~ Naoki Urasawa

Naoki Urasawa Child Monster Upbringing

Still, it seemed to us that the main reason we were hated must be that we always lived by stealing. From the earliest times, rats lived around the edges of human cities and farms, stowed away on men's ships, gnawed holes in their floors and stole their food. Sometimes we were accused of biting human children; I didn't believe that, nor did any of us⎼unless it was some kind of a subnormal rat, bred in the worst of city slums. And that, of course, can happen to people, too.

~ Robert C. O'brien

Robert C. O'brien Prejudice Rats Upbringing

I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving.

~ Tori Amos

Tori Amos Loving Close Upbringing