Parenting & Family Quote by Eartha Kitt

Eartha Kitt turns loneliness into stagecraft: a small, brutal feeling - not being wanted - answered with a practical talisman. “Exorcises” is the key word. She’s not describing a mood lift; she’s staging a spiritual removal, as if rejection is a possessing force you have to cast out, not gently “work through.” That choice carries the grain of her persona: glamorous, razor-witted, but never begging for approval. She doesn’t ask the room to accept her. She changes the room.

The pairing of “animals” and “children” is doing sly cultural work. Both are beings who attach without negotiating status. They don’t care about industry hierarchies, racial gatekeeping, or the social punishments that followed Kitt through her career. (This is a woman whose candor had consequences, who learned that being desirable onstage didn’t guarantee being welcomed off it.) In that light, companionship becomes a counter-public: if the world is fickle, she builds a reliable audience at her side.

There’s also a quiet reversal of power. “Not being wanted” is normally something other people do to you; Kitt’s solution makes wanting mutual. Children and animals don’t just validate her - they require her. The subtext isn’t neediness, it’s sovereignty: you can’t exile someone who is already anchored to living, dependent love. The line lands because it’s unsentimental and specific, a survival technique disguised as confession.