Trudie Styler Quotes

We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well, this has been a squinting, walleyed time to be born in.

When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with.

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

Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.

My kids are my life and the thought of someone taking them away from me is my worst nightmare.

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.

A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.

Children are not a burden.

At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.

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

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

The coral that grows at the edge of the reef is always the strongest and most colourful because it faces the greatest battering. It's the same if you're called Honeysuckle. I'd have had a totally different life if I'd been called Mary.

But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.

My surname certainly suggests a man whose destiny has always been injury.

I am a Cuban mother, and you do not let your cubs get into trouble without you trying to help them all the way.

My mother always thought if her mother hadn't left her, she would have been happy. All the problems she had never would have happened.

I was in the orphanage in New Orleans until I was almost a year old. I don't think I ever got held by my mama, so that was completely and utterly traumatic. I think it was trauma from the first breath, and I think I've spent my whole life trying to heal from that trauma. So it shaped my brain.

My father took my mother, me, and my brother from Sicily to New York. He got us one-way tickets but booked himself a return flight. He dumped us with my mother's parents, who had just arrived from Italy, and abandoned us. That was 1986. I didn't see or speak to him for another 12 years. That's cruel.

Many feel sorry for a person like David Platt. He was abandoned by his father, his mother wanted to abort him and his stepdad wanted him dead.

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

It is really strange how life works, isn't it?

When I was growing up, nobody was really supporting me, especially in L.A.

Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.

Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future