"My mom didn’t want me to go to college. She didn’t want me to read – when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple."
― Lynda Barry
Topic(s):
Respect
More From Lynda Barry
- "The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry."
- "It’s one thing to have a relationship, to lay your hands on it, and another to make it continue and last. That’s something I haven’t talked about much in my comic strips, and it’s certainly something I’m interested in."
- "If I didn’t try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time."
More In Respect
- "I’m a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves."― Rachel Roy
- "Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them."― Orison Swett Marden
- "I’m not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it."― Sugar Ray Leonard