“ If women could regard childbearing not as a duty or an inescapable destiny but as a privilege to be worked for, the ay a man might work for the right to have a family, children might grow up without t… Germaine Greer
“ In my meditations, I find that nothing in life counts more than the happiness we can give others, the good that we can do. This is what we must teach our children, to think of others more than they th… Don Kladstrup
“ Children read their favorite books to death, she said. They are careless in their devotions. They rip the pages, scribble, and spill things on them. And they are demon book thieves. Jean Nathan
“ He might have hurt me a little,' Atticus conceded, 'but sn, you'll understand folks a little better when you're older. A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr Cunnignham was part of a mob… Harper Lee
“ Both men and women who have children as a rule regulate their lives largely with reference to them, and children cause perfectly ordinary men and women to act unselfishly in certain ways, of which per… Bertrand Russell
“ Between Sylvia and me there existed as between my own mother and me - a sort of psychic osmosis which, at times, was very wonderful and comforting; at other times an unwelcome invasion of privacy (wor… Sylvia Plath
“ Vic didn't have a car and probably spent a hundred and sixty hours a week at home. The house smelled of piss-soaked diapers and engine parts, and the sink was always full.In retrospect Vic was only su… Joe Hill
“ The heterosexual emotions of young children can find a natural, wholesome and innocent outlet with other children; in this form they are a part of play, and like all play, they afford a preparation fo… Bertrand Russell
“ Children do not always appreciate their parents encouraging them to explore and grow. The selfishness of a child manifests itself in his or her intent to remain a child and never enter an adult world… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ A woman's body does a thousand different things, toils, runs, studies, fantasizes, invents, wearies, and meanwhile the breasts enlarge, the lips of the sex swell, the flesh throbs with a round life th… Elena Ferrante
“ Just having children is a risk, Kate. We are gambling on the future, investing in the unknown with nothing but hope and blind faith. How can we keep our own safe when anyone else is in danger? Florence Engel Randall
“ When feeding your children, do you want to fill their tummies? Or nourish their bodies? Catherine Barnhoorn
“ Note to adults who work with children: Tiny eyes watching yourstiny ears hearing every wordtiny tongues repeating every spoken word ....that is how I learnthat is how I become.Your senses hold mine.Yo… Cathrine Lødøen
“ You share the same destiny as everyone else, the same history, the same hardship, the same rot, the same Tram beer, the same dog kebabs, the same narrative as soon as you come into the world. You star… Fiston Mwanza Mujila
“ People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for, and they have a right to subject their children to it. Harper Lee
“ Help me to love them better and more. Fill in the cracks that formed when I failed to be careful enough with them. Let their innocent minds remember the happy times more often than they remember the s… Hallie Lord
“ ...home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children. But whether tomorrow or years from now, I cannot guess. Kate Morton
“ Down the hall the children slept three to a bedroom; Hattie could almost hear them growing, their wrists lengthening and poking out beyond the cuffs of their sleeves, their feet outgrowing their shoes… Ayana Mathis
“ Jake accompanied us as well, having arrived in Akhia shortly before the excavation team departed. I did not tell him our destination until we were safely away from civilization, and found my caution a… Marie Brennan
“ What we must remember above all in the education of our children is that their love of life should never weaken. Natalia Ginzburg
