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"I'm hurt, hurt and humiliated beyond endurance, seeing the wheat ripening, the fountains never ceasing to give water, the sheep bearing hundreds of lambs, the she-dogs, until it seems the whole country rises to show me its tender sleeping young while I feel two hammer-blows here instead of the mouth of my child."

Lorca, Federico Garcia on fertility    Share


"A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it."

Clark, Frank A. on parents and parenting
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"Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine."

Bloom, Allan on parents and parenting
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"Having children makes one no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist."

Levine, Michael on parents and parenting
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"In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent."

Marquis, Don on parents and parenting
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"Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur."

Toffler, Alvin on parents and parenting    Share

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I'm female and made my book on 4th March 2013.

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