Jeannette Walls
Jeannette Walls
Jeannette Wallsis an American writer and journalist widely known as former gossip columnist for MSNBC.com — and author of The Glass Castle, a memoir of the nomadic family life of her childhood, which stayed on the New York Times Best Seller list for 100 weeks...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMemoirist
Date of Birth21 April 1960
CityPhoenix, AZ
CountryUnited States of America
mom father worry
Don't worry, God understands,' Mom said. 'He knows that your father is a cross we must bear.
unfriendly new-yorkers
New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.
sleep night looks
It was good work, the kind of work that let you sleep soundly at night and, when you awoke, look forward to the day.
helping wonder knows
What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive.
forever afternoon lasts
Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?
dog dad fire-burning
I wondered if the fire had been out to get me. I wondered if all fire was related, like Dad said all humans were related, if the fire that had burned me that day while I cooked hot dogs was somehow connected o the fire I had flushed down the toilet and the fire burning at the hotel. I didn't have the answers to those questions, but what I did know was that I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.
mom children people
Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you are young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul.
men careers boss
You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.
hair glory crowning-glory
A lady's hair is her crowning glory
dark light shining
Don't be afraid of your dark places. ... If you can shine a light on them, you'll find treasure there.
art creativity able
It's so much of what art and creativity are, being able to confront your own demons. If you can do that, you can get through just about everything.
luck too-much spirit
Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.
morning horse rocks
Living there [Horse Mesa] was like living in a natural cathedral. Waking up every morning, you walked outside and looked down at the blue lake, then up at the sandstone cliffs--those awe-inspiring layers of red and yellow rock shaped over the millennia, with dozens of black-streaked crevices that temporarily became waterfalls after rainstorms.
children reinforcement negative
Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.