Stepchild Quotes

• I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would be easier if you didnt exist.

  Jennifer Egan

  Two, Different, Would Be

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• Slowly ... the truth is dawning upon women, and still more slowly upon men, that woman is no stepchild of nature, no Cinderella of fate to be dowered only by fairies and the Prince; but that for her and in her, as truly as for and in man, life has wrought its great experiences, its master attainments, its supreme human revelations of the stuff of which worlds are made.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Fate, Men, World

  Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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• Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.

  Murasaki Shikibu

  Family, Intimacy, Difficult

  Lady Murasaki, Murasaki Shikibu, Arthur Waley (2000). “The Tale of Genji”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• The biggest challenge in my life is getting all these kids raised. I've helped with nieces, stepchildren and my own son, so the biggest challenge is making sure the kids are raised and finding enough quality time with them.

  Reba McEntire

  Niece, Kids, Son

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• The term bisexual has ended up as the ugly stepchild of sexuality, in both name and meaning. Its fate is symptomatic of the bisexual's own lot in life: to be as common as can be, but unacknowledged.

  Jennifer Baumgardner

  Fate, Bisexual, Names

  Jennifer Baumgardner (2008). “Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics”, p.63, Macmillan

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• Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you should. Everyoneneeds time to adjust to the new family, adults included. There is no such thing as an "instant parent."
  Actually, no concrete object lies outside of the poetic sphere as long as the poet knows how to use the object properly.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lying, Love You, Thinking

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• Yeah, but before anything, I think in 6 years somehow I've grown up to have a beautiful home, 2 beautiful stepchildren, a beautiful husband, my family is healthy and happy. I'm financially ok and I do what I love for a living. That's what I think, and I think god, how did I get so lucky.

  Angelina Jolie

  Beautiful, Husband, Home

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• I discovered, quite early in motherhood, that the longest and most painful deliveries occur when you give birth to stepchildren.

  Linda Sunshine

  Family, Motherhood, Giving

  Linda Sunshine (1987). “The memoirs of Bambi Goldbloom, or, Growing up in New Jersey”, Fireside

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• Religion is the retarded stepchild of philosophy.

  Frank Mir

  Philosophy, Retarded

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• I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren.

  Ellen Barkin

  Husband, Teenager, Grandchildren

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• I’ve held onto Ugg boots. I will never graduate to Crocs, but Ugg boots are always and forever. That’s my fashion stepchild.

  Johnny Weir

  Fashion, Uggs, Forever

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• Dastardly devious, cleverly conceived, and just a whole lot of fun to read, DEATH PERCEPTION is Lee Allen Howard on fire and at his finest. Rife with winsome weirdness, it's like the mutant stepchild of Carl Hiaasen and Stephen King, mixing a truly unique paranormal coming-of-age story with a quirky cast of offbeat noir characters into a novel that's simply unforgettable... and hilariously original. A supernatural crime story, blazing with creative intrigue... don't miss it.

  Michael Arnzen

  Kings, Fun, Character

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• Being a stepmother has worked out very well for me. I love my stepchildren very much.

  Philippa Gregory

  Stepmothers, Stepchildren, Wells

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• We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Divorce, Home

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• I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.

  Daryl Hall

  Gone, Stepchildren

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• If God is love, then God has no stepchildren to love.

  John Henrik Clarke

  God Is Love, Stepchildren, Ifs

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• Dance is the stepchild of the arts.

  Twyla Tharp

  Dance, Art

  Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• Sleep: the stepchild of Death.

  Nancy A. Collins

  Sleep

  Nancy A. Collins (2017). “The Sonja Blue Novels Books 1–4: Sunglasses After Dark, In the Blood, Paint It Black, and A Dozen Black Roses”, p.274, Open Road Media

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• The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.

  Jill Paton Walsh

  Moving, Wicked, Adults

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• All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Hurt, Worry

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