My husband and I are either going to buy a
dog or have a child. We can’t decide to ruin
our carpet or ruin our lives.
—Rita Rudner
dog or have a child. We can’t decide to ruin
our carpet or ruin our lives.
—Rita Rudner
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
—Peter Ustinov, attributed
—Peter Ustinov, attributed
Children’s liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin, “Down with Sexist Upbringing,” The First
Ms. Reader , Klagsbrun
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin, “Down with Sexist Upbringing,” The First
Ms. Reader , Klagsbrun
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in
this world. —Isadora Duncan, This Quarter (Paris), Autumn 1929
this world. —Isadora Duncan, This Quarter (Paris), Autumn 1929
The child endures all things. —Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind,
1949
1949
It is destroying, dissolving him utterly, this helpless warmth against
him, this feel of a child. —Tillie Olsen, “Hey Sailor, What Ship?,” Tell
Me a Riddle, 1960
him, this feel of a child. —Tillie Olsen, “Hey Sailor, What Ship?,” Tell
Me a Riddle, 1960
All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in
fact, barely presentable. —Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life, 1978
fact, barely presentable. —Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life, 1978
Thou straggler into loving arms, / Young climber up of knees, / When
I forget thy thousand ways, / Then life and all shall cease. —Mary Ann
Lamb, “A Child,” Poetry for Children, 1809
I forget thy thousand ways, / Then life and all shall cease. —Mary Ann
Lamb, “A Child,” Poetry for Children, 1809
We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are con-
cerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot
afford children, but because we do not like children. —Germaine
Greer, Sex and Destiny, 1984
cerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot
afford children, but because we do not like children. —Germaine
Greer, Sex and Destiny, 1984
Children are not our creations but our guests. —John Updike, quoted
by Anatole Broyard, Aroused by Books, 1974
by Anatole Broyard, Aroused by Books, 1974
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