Eartha Kitt Quotes

I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.

I accused a woman of doing something behind my back when I knew that she hadn't, just to see if she loved me.

Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.

My father kicked me out of the house by the time I was 16.

I was in diapers when my parents left me with the babysitter to participate in an armored car robbery. They never came home.

I probably gave up on my dad when I was born.

Whores, instead of claiming what's rightfully yours. Pierced a hole in my heart from all the pain you caused, with no direction you left your first born lost.

I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.

Ever since I can remember feeling love for my parents, I've been frightened of losing them.

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.

I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful.

The real demon in my life is my father.

I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.

I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.

There's been times when I've had heartbreaking moments and I'm like, 'I can't believe you said that,' or 'I can't believe you did that'. And it hurts, it still hurts, and it'll always hurt, but I've never had somebody that I truly cared about just walk out on me, whether it was a boyfriend, or an aunt, mom or dad.

I've played a worrying number of orphans, children who have been abandoned or had something terrible happen to them.

I always felt I was wounded. That I was no good, a piece of crap, and that I wouldn't amount to anything, because that's what my father always told me. I just felt like I didn't belong anywhere.

If you're getting abandonment, if you're getting abuse as a child, if you're getting uncertainty when you're a child, unfortunately you tend to look for that in your life later on, and you think that's love.

I had very few friends. There was nobody I could trust. I left home when I was fifteen. I lived in Washington Square Park.

My ex-husband didn't like my singing. He didn't like my hair. He hated my eyes. Everything. Everything he complimented me on when we first met, he just hated.