Julie Lythcott-Haims Quotes

What is shaping the way we dream? Yes we dream of our selves, of what we will become, but it's the environment that tells us what is possible. I don't think our dreams are limitless; they are bounded by the society we live in and its conception of what is respectable and good.

Happiness and self-confidence can be the by-products of other things, but they cannot really be goals unto themselves.

There is something that's a great deal more important than parental approval: learning to do without it. That's what it means to become an adult.

Young adults come to resent the people who did the thinking for them.