# Quote — John Wyndham, Chocky

> I have been astonished before, and doubtless shall be again, how the kindliest and most sympathetic of women can pettify and downgrade the searing anguishes of childhood.

- Author: [John Wyndham](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham.md)
- Book: [Chocky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/chocky.md)
- Page: 118
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Wyndham#Chocky_(1968)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/chocky/i-have-been

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> Everybody ought to be able to swim.

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> I don't understand women. Nobody does. Least of all themselves.

p. 15 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/chocky/i-dont-understand.md)

> I felt a poignant memory of those desolate patches of disillusion which are the shocks of growing up. The discovery that one lived in a world which could pay honour where honour was not due, was just such a one. The values were rocked, the dependable was suddenly flimsy, the solid became hollow, gold turned to brass, there was no integrity anywhere . . .

p. 124 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/chocky/i-felt-a-poignant.md)