"I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were."
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"I have an only child. She's so independent and good with adults."
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"If you can help a child, you don't have to spend years repairing an adult."
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"No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away, even though they may have still been in the womb, blind, and unable to speak. That's why, as adults, we all look for someone to become our parents again, and for someone to look after us in times of need. And we search for a person to live with who can provide the companionship we so desperately want."
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"My thing is, I know kids cuss, they do their thing, but I tell my kids, 'Don't do it in earshot of any adults, or you're in trouble.'"
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"It's a lot easier to make friends when you're younger, because kids are a lot less judgmental than adults. They're more like, "O.K., let's be friends." Not, "So, what's your job?" "What's your marriage status?""
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"But an adult if he is to provide proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him can clearly see his actions in all their particulars."
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"One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return."
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"Adults ask questions as a child does. When you stop wondering, you might as well put your rocker on the front porch and call it a day."
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"Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence."
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"When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself."
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"It's better to build a peaceful child than re-build a violent adult."
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"If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble."
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"Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults."
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"I've had the same breasts for my entire adult life."
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"When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em."
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"A relationship is an imaginative act, it's an act of creation. Someone said to me the other day that a relationship between a person and a kid is unconditional; but the relationship between adults, to each other, is conditional, in a sense. But that condition can be the best kind."
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"A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the preconceived notions and prejudices of adult society."
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"I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults."
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"Let me tell you something: for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country, because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback."
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