Catherine Cookson Quotes

“To be ill-treated by your mother, who is supposed to be a loving, nurturing figure, is one of the most damaging things that can happen to a child.”
― Kathleen Jones, Catherine Cookson: Child of the Tyne

“In primitive societies the person who was almost as important as the shaman and operated on the same kind of level was the storyteller.”
― Kathleen Jones, Catherine Cookson: Child of the Tyne

“cast thy bread upon the waters and it shall come back to thee after many days’.”
― Kathleen Jones, Catherine Cookson: Child of the Tyne

“They ‘possess each other like demon lovers, alternately clinging together as one and then separating in furious mutual rejection. They encircle one another in a bond of steel …”
― Kathleen Jones, Catherine Cookson: Child of the Tyne

“if an infant’s earliest experience of his mother is such that he has not acquired the conviction of her essential "goodness", he will then find it impossible to achieve any conviction of his own essential "goodness" or lovability, and will possess no inner sense of self- esteem upon which to rely. However successful he may be in later life, he will remain intensely vulnerable to failure, rejection or disappointment, which will seem to him the end of the world, and throw him into profound depression.”
― Kathleen Jones, Catherine Cookson: Child of the Tyne

“she was never, I felt, truly emotionally warm towards anyone,”
― Kathleen Jones, Catherine Cookson: Child of the Tyne

“it takes a very secure male ego to handle sexual equality.”
― Kathleen Jones, Catherine Cookson: Child of the Tyne

“Women might be beaten senseless by their husbands in the house next door, but it was never mentioned.”
― Kathleen Jones, Catherine Cookson: Child of the Tyne

“Hers was a toughness born from bitterness and tragedy, where every ounce of optimism or humour had been beaten out of her by experience.”
― Kathleen Jones, Catherine Cookson: Child of the Tyne