"It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group. One person who was very supportive was my father. My mother was great but my father really recognised my individuality and supported me in that"
About this Quote
The emotional hinge is the pivot from self-description to family dynamics. She gives her mother a respectful, almost ceremonial compliment, then sharpens the focus: “but my father really recognised my individuality.” That “really” carries the subtext of selective recognition - love isn’t just affection; it’s accuracy. In a culture that often treats daughters as extensions of a family script, Stone credits her father with seeing her as a separate person, not merely a role to perform. It also subtly counters the stereotype that fathers are distant or disciplinarian while mothers are the intuitive nurturers. Her memory flips that expectation without villainizing anyone.
Context matters: Stone’s public persona has long been shaped by being categorized - as a sex symbol, as “difficult,” as hyper-competent, as the object of other people’s projections. This quote reads like a small origin story for that tension. The “support” she describes isn’t abstract encouragement; it’s permission to be singular, which is often the first and hardest kind of backing an “individual” ever gets.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Stone, Sharon. (2026, January 16). It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group. One person who was very supportive was my father. My mother was great but my father really recognised my individuality and supported me in that. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-was-not-always-easy-because-i-was-always-an-98884/
Chicago Style
Stone, Sharon. "It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group. One person who was very supportive was my father. My mother was great but my father really recognised my individuality and supported me in that." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-was-not-always-easy-because-i-was-always-an-98884/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group. One person who was very supportive was my father. My mother was great but my father really recognised my individuality and supported me in that." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-was-not-always-easy-because-i-was-always-an-98884/. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.





