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.- Lynn Johnston
You see, anything I imagined, I could draw.
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 baby. I didn't want a baby.
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 is happy, she is thriving, she is full of self-confidence. I tell her she is beautiful every day before I send her off to school.
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The most profound statements are often said in silence.
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 ruled the roost.
Sure, I have had some bad times, but everybody does. But people do not get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People do not get to put them in the paper like I do.
People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.
Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it.
No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.
My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.
My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created... what power that was!
Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.
It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.
In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.
