Maureen Forrester Quotes

My childhood was bittersweet in many ways. We moved around a lot. By the time I was 10, I had travelled thousands of miles, often on my own. My parents were like my friends, so it felt like I didn't really have parents at all. But in a crazy way that was very liberating. It forced me to be independent, maybe a leader, and certainly a survivor.

If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me.

There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

When you're in a single-parent home, they try to give you a good foundation, but by the time you're 4 or 5 years old, from that point on you're pretty much on your own.

I don't want anybody guarding me. I want to be free; I want to be left alone... I would like to go out there and have no one know me, but at the same time, it would bother me, y'know.

I used to think that what scared me was the idea of being abandoned until someone said to me, 'Only children can be abandoned. Adults can't be abandoned because we have a choice. Children don't have a choice.'

Alone I'm nothing.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.

I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case.

Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

You must show him, by leaving him severely alone.

I grew up in the middle of everything. I walked the streets alone, I rode the trains alone, I came home at three in the morning alone; that was what I did.

I'm not tough, and I never have been. I suppose over the years I've built up kind of a veneer to protect myself because I have functioned on my own for a long, long time, and I have never had a lot of flunkies preceding me to clear the way.

I basically raised myself.

Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.

I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be.

I hated my whole childhood, hated it, hated it, hated it. There was no place for me.

I feel guilty about spending so much time away from home and loved ones.

I'm learning to deal with my loneliness because then nobody can muck me around any more.

I love New York! You walk around, nobody notices you, you don't notice anybody, you're in your own little world.

We're all alone in this world.

I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.

I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.

I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.