Children Quote by Maxine Hong Kingston

“Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Only the family, society's smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be 'strangers in a strange…

— Salvador Minuchin

“Children were only strangers you agreed to live with”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

We still raise girls to look to other people for assurance they are attractive and smart, while boys are raised to determine their own…

— Eileen Pollack

The idea that sex is something a woman gives a man, and she loses something when she does that, which again for me is…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.

— Bernard Malamud

“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Don't raise your girls to be porcelain roses protected behind a cabinet's glass sliding doors. Raise your girls to be wild roses growing on…

— C. JoyBell C

Parents decide to accept the responsibility of raising children. Any thanks they get for doing that is gravy. Grateful children are a blessing, but…

— Donald C Medeiros

I'm constantly trying to educate myself with new material on raising children as opposed to the rule book from 20 years ago.

— Asher Keddie

There are many important elements to being a parent. A lot of people don't have fathers but they might have someone in their life…

— Liv Tyler

“A ‘good’ father will tenderly cultivate his children. But a ‘good’ father who is also a ‘brave’ father will let the children without cultivate…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

We must acknowledge that bearing and raising children is not some pesky, peripheral activity that we engage in, but the whole point.

— Susan Maushart

Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul.

— Anne Lamott

We're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment

— Brené Brown