Quotes by : Jeannette Walls

Life there was hard and it made people hard.

You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you. And you can't avoid danger. It's there.....

If you had weak eyes, they needed exercise to get strong. Glasses were like crutches. They prevented....

Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are....

I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing....

In this world, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you got it.....

If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.

...even though I was getting better education at home than any of the kids in Toyah, I'd need to go to....

Submitting seemed to me a lot like giving up. If God gave us the strength to bail- the gumption to try....

The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of companies....