Quentin Crisp Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

  Quentin Crisp

  Teenage, Parent, Copying

  The Naked Civil Servant ch. 19 (1968)

• My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

  Quentin Crisp

  Fathers Day, Mother, Dad

• If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up.

  Quentin Crisp

  Parent, Precaution, Ifs

  1968 The Naked Civil Servant, ch.5.

• People say to me, "When did you come out?" But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I'd found in an attic, saying, "I am a beautiful princess!" What my parents thought of this, I don't know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.

  Quentin Crisp

  Beautiful, Mother, Real

  Source: www.avclub.com

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