‘‘You’ll never be good at anything’
‘Work hard, the harder you work, the more successful you are’
‘You won’t get into university, no one in this family has and never will, who do you think you are?’
‘So, you think you’re going to run your own business, how the hell are you going to do that? You’re useless at everything’
‘You’re too ugly to even think you’re going to meet someone, who’d want to fall in love with you’
‘You’re too short’
‘You’re too good looking’
‘You’re too nice, you’ll get walked over’
‘You’re too tall’, ‘You’re too ugly’, ‘You have no personality’
‘You’ll never be as good as your brothers and sisters’
‘We didn’t plan on having you, you were a mistake’
‘Shut up and get on with it’
‘Don’t tell anyone that we do these things, they won’t believe you and you’ll get disowned by the family’
‘Big kids don’t cry’
‘Man up’
‘Pen Pusher’, ‘Geek’
‘You’re a man, you should do a man’s job'
‘You’re a woman, you should do a woman’s job’