I wondered then why children played so in the river, but adults ceased to see it with the same eyes. Why couldn't we embrace such simple joys?
John ShorsOn this Mother's Day and every day before and after, I thank you God for the precious gift of my three children. I love them unconditionally.
Ana MonnarTags: children mother sons daughter mother-s-love
How should a system convince people that they do not possess their sex properly? Teach them that in their possession it is shapeless and unconditioned. Only once it has been modified, layered with experts, honeycombed with norms, overlaid with pictorial representations, and sold back to them can it fulfill itself as what its possessors "always wanted".
Mark GreifTags: sexuality children sex liberation commoditization
He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often--he searched for a simile, found one in his work--torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?
Ray BradburyTags: inspiration children epiphany a-foil mirror-images
One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
Jane GoodallMilton's learned vocabulary [...] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents' speech as heard by the child.
John BroadbentTags: parents children authority erudition vocabulary john-milton
I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!
Melissa EtheridgeTags: coolness music children parenting noise bedrooms
I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.
Anne LamottGrown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
Roald DahlTags: humor children childhood
It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?
Gregory MaguireTags: humor children birth the-world center-of-the-universe jack-the-ripper
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