Cybill
Shepherd Recalls Spankings With The Belt
Cybill Disobedience, page
33
Cybill tells of a scuffle she had with her older sister
in their common bed.
"When my father saw my bruised shins and red-rimmed
eyes, he made Terry bend over, hands to ankles, and walloped her
with his belt. She incurred a similar punishment every time she
chased me around the house and attacked me, which was often
because I regularly provoked her, awfully dumb since she was
older, bigger, stronger, and faster. I hid over a floor furnace
outside the den every time she was punished, talking to my
plastic horses while my sister yelped, determined to avoid such
punishment myself. I, Miss Perfect, rarely got whipped. My most
egregious sins were repeatedly scribbling in crayon on the living
room wall and taunting my brother to bite me, then telling on him
when he did. The spankings came to an end when I stopped crying.
page 51
"I couldn`t understand being punished for
misbehaving by having to bend over and be walloped with a belt
and my friend Martha was punished by having to memorise The Raven."