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"Women should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children...If a woman grows weary and, at last, dies from childbearing, it matters not. Let her die from bearing - she is there to do it."
"In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents ought to handle their children."
"Men have broad and large chests, and small narrow hips, and more understanding than women, who have but small and narrow breasts, and broad hips, to the end they should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children."
"What I think it really means is: I'm a teacher. I am a teacher. I teach all the time, as you do and as all of you do-whether we know it or not, whether we take responsibility for it or not. I hold nothing back because I want to see that light go off. I like to see the children say, 'I never thought of that before.' And I think, 'I've got them!'"
"My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine."
"I am a child of God. I always carry that with me."
"Shelter Network's programs and services are a rainbow in the clouds for homeless children and adults."
"All God's children need traveling shoes."
"How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now."
"Before I had children, I was - everything about my life was devoted to "Saturday Night Live.""
"I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves."
"I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable."
"When I say that all men have the mind which cannot bear to see the suffering of others, my meaning is illustrated this way: when two men suddenly see a child about to fall into a well, they all have a feeling of alarm and distress, not to gain friendship with the child's parents, nor to seek the praise of their neighbors and friends. From such a case, we see that a man without the feeling of commiseration is not a man. The feeling of commiseration is the beginning of humanity."
"Life is all about making choices and I'm very happy with mine. I have had a wonderful time raising four children and I've also been lucky to have the support of a wonderful husband."
"Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me."
"Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children."
"We don't like to talk about that in America, but there are classes in America. And she [Julia Child] was of a class of women who were wealthy, privately educated, went to Smith, moved in that sort of circle. She was conscripted into the OSS, which is the early CIA, which was all filled with Yalies and Princeton and Harvard people and a few women who were typing mostly but also had something to do."
"People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there."
"I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school."
"The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president"
