African Quote by Lucy Michot

“We're all born nameless, aren't we? And the name we end up with has only peripherally to do with our family tree.”

— Emma Bull

“-An altogether frivolous and silly name.- -The child chose it herself. Perhaps an attempt to grasp the very things that others feared her for…

— Robin LaFevers

In some cultures they don't name their babies right away. They wait until they see how the child develops. Like in Dances with Wolves.…

— Paul Reiser

“I know the power names hold better than anyone. Yesterday, I was a girl without an identity, someone risen from the ashes of a…

— Elizabeth May

“All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them.”

— Roberto Bolaño

“My favorite passage is from Rule: "I hated guys that called a girl "baby". Baby was what you used when you couldn't remember a…

— Jay Crownover

“Sometimes, when something has a name it changes things. Especially when the name is big, long, and official-sounding, like "gender-nonconforming".”

— Lori Duron

“The thought that babies would become children, and children would become people, never occurred to them. The concept that perhaps biology was not destiny,…

— Seanan McGuire

“Our daughters aren’t the same people we are, nor are they extensions of ourselves. They are unique individuals in God’s eyes, responsible to Him…

— Lynn Austin

“Names are a great mystery. I've never known whether the name is molded by the child or the child changed to fit the name.…

— John Steinbeck

“Children are like flowers. Let them bloom by giving them your warm smiles, your soft gentle words falling on them like rain and your…

— Abaida Mahmood

“In fact, the mothers of all her girl friends impressed on their daughters the necessity of being helpless, clinging, doe-eyed creatures. Really, it took…

— Margaret Mitchell