Quotes About A Stepchild

#1. Religion is the retarded stepchild of philosophy.

Frank Mir

#2. I'll beat you like a red headed stepchild.

Mark Osler

#3. I remember the dark days when, thanks to 1966's 'Batman' with Adam West, comics were considered the ugly stepchild of popular culture.

Marc Guggenheim

#4. I've held onto Ugg boots. I will never graduate to Crocs, but Ugg boots are always and forever. That's my fashion stepchild.

Johnny Weir

#5. The term bisexual has ended up as the ugly stepchild of sexuality, in both name and meaning. Its fate is symptomatic of the bisexual's own lot in life: to be as common as can be, but unacknowledged.

Jennifer Baumgardner

#6. Respect can be as elusive as the unicorn. I know something of this because I write books that are set in the Middle Ages, and the historical novel is often seen as the unwanted stepchild in the fictional family. I know even more about respect - or the lack thereof - because I live in New Jersey.

Sharon Kay Penman

#7. Dance is the stepchild of the arts.

Twyla Tharp

#8. I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would be easier if you didn't exist.

Jennifer Egan

#9. Westerns have often been considered the ugly stepchild of genre writing...

Johnny D. Boggs

#10. Moralism and its stepchild, legalism, reduce the love story of God for his people to the observance of burdensome duties and oppressive laws.

Brennan Manning

#11. Sleep: the stepchild of Death.

Nancy A. Collins

#12. Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.

Adam Mansbach

#13. Got it. Look for a room with a sign with a big arrow that says, 'Kidnapped Mancies Here,' " he said.

Jaye Wells

#14. I wrote 'Ain't It Cool? Hollywood's Redheaded Stepchild Speaks Out,' because in doing hundreds and hundreds of interviews over the past six and a half years, I was tired of the story being half told or a third told or erroneously told.

Harry Knowles

#15. So about this Leon god thing? I don't know of any gods named Leon. Is he like the red-headed stepchild god that no one claims?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#16. Poverty is not the stepchild of the Great Recession; poverty has always been a part of American life.

Tavis Smiley

#17. Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy ... and on and on and on.

R.A. Salvatore