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Richard Ford Novelist
Children

"They may already know too much about their mother and father--nothing being more factual than divorce, where so much has to be explained and worked through intelligently (though they have tried to stay equable). I've noticed this is often the time when children begin calling their parents by their first names, becoming little ironists after their parents' faults. What could be lonelier for a parent than to be criticized by his child on a first-name basis?"

Children Mother Father
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Shania Twain Singer-songwriter
Children

"I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely."

Thinking Children Perspective
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Sheena Iyengar Psychologist
Children

"In America we tell our parents to bring their child home and put him or her in a crib; as they get older, children sleep in they own room not in Mom and Dad's room. What are we training them for? It's independence, because that's what being empowered is all about."

Children Mom Dad
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Sheena Iyengar Psychologist
Children

"I think I was always informally thinking about choice from when I was a very young child because I was born to Sikh immigrant parents, so I was constantly going back and forth between a Sikh household and an American outside world, so I was going back and forth between a very traditional Sikh home in which you had to follow the Five K's."

Thinking Children Home
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Sheena Iyengar Psychologist
Children

"First-generation children were strongly influenced by their immigrant parents' approach to choice. For them, choice was not just a way of defining and asserting their individuality, but a way to create community and harmony by deferring to the choices of people whom they trusted and respected."

Children Inspiration Motivation
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Sheena Iyengar Psychologist
Children

"My child's first word was "more," but and it's all about, "I want." "I'm going to tell you what I want and what I don't want." It's about my desire to express my preferences. And that is really innate."

Children Want Desire
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Sheena Iyengar Psychologist
Children

"You know, you take a little infant and you turn on the music mobile on their crib and you find that if you give them a music mobile which turns on automatically versus a music mobile in which - if by chance their little legs or their little hands accidentally touches it - turns on they're so much more excited if by chance it turns on because they touched it, so that desire for control over their environment is... really appears from very early on and if you look at children's first words, "no, yes.""

Children Giving Hands
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Sheryl Sandberg Business Executive, Author
Children

"It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care."

Children Home Careers
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Sheryl Sandberg Business Executive, Author
Children

"There are really good reasons to leave the workforce or work less or take a different job when you want to be with your children. I just want women - and men - to make that choice once they have the child. Not years in advance, because... they don't get the right opportunities. They give up before they even start."

Children Jobs Giving Up
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Sheryl Sandberg Business Executive, Author
Children

"...parents who work outside the home are still capable of giving their children a loving and secure childhood. Some data even suggest that having two parents working outside the home can be advantageous to a child's development, particularly for girls."

Children Home Girl
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Sheryl Sandberg Business Executive, Author
Children

"I believe we need affordable child care. I believe we need flexibility. I believe we need institutional reform and public policy reform."

Believe Children Reform
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Sheryl Sandberg Business Executive, Author
Children

"We're the only developed country in the world that doesn't have paid maternity leave. Paternity leave is just as important. Paid family medical leave so that you can take care of a parent, a child, a grandparent, whatever you need to do. I think we're shortsighted when we don't invest in our employees as companies, and as an economy, because we invest in them and they invest back in us."

Thinking Children Country
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Shirley Geok-lin Lim Poet, Novelist
Children

"In that way, I don't understand myself. It might have to do with my own conflicts, where to place my body as a child, which I have carried over to now. In this way I'm constantly dislocated."

Children Body Might
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Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
Children

"[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture."

Children Impression Exposure
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Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
Children

"It almost looks like analysis were the third of those 'impossible' professions in which one can be quite sure of unsatisfying results. The other two, much older-established, are the bringing up of children and the government of nations."

Children Two Government
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