Lynn Johnston Quotes

Canadian

- Cartoonist May 28 , 1947 Amazon Top 10 Quotes by Lynn Johnston Read full biography

You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a . . . very brutal disciplinarian.

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You see, anything I imagined, I could draw.

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Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little...

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When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I...

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Well, I loved to sing, just loved it.

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The most profound statements are often said in silence.

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That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kindly. She was terrified of men, and she married a very meek, kind, dear man. And she had the upper hand. She...

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Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don't get to put them in the paper like I do.

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People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes. . . we never stopped inventing.

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Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it.

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