Priscilla Chan Quotes

Sometimes I think we're exposed to things we shouldn't be exposed to too early. I think that sets the tone to a person's whole life. Trauma.

But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult.

When you have a tough childhood, you either cry or make a joke.

We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood.

Childhood bullying was a big part of my life.

If you don't feel safe as a child, you can't learn.

I guess some kids around me had to grow up quickly, had all those problems. But I wasn't one of those kids, or around those kids, not at all.

Child stardom is a really hard thing. It can really lead to bad things, and I think a lot of people have gone through that.

Kids gave Elon a very hard time, and it had a huge impact on his life.

My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always felt a sense of exhilaration after a fight; it was the names that really hurt me.

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.

My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.

We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not fair. Bad things happen to good people.

Hopefully this movie will help people understand that if a child is never given the tools to know how to love others and love and respect themselves, this is what happens.

I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more.

I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

The first time I went to therapy, I had to stop going because they were making me hate my parents.

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

Across the Atlantic, commercial therapy of all kinds provides so many more comfortable outlets for people when they are under pressure. The English tradition is to get a grip, whereas the American version is to get in touch with your feelings, to say: 'I'm a good person. Isn't it terrible when bad things happen to people like me?'

My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved.