"For the first forty days a child is……" — Michael Ondaatje

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• Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I… — Asia Argento
• I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild… — Margaret Atwood
• As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child,… — Diane Ackerman
• Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a… — Gaston Bachelard
• I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center… — Michele Bachmann
• In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar… — Enid Bagnold
• A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. — James A. Baldwin
• There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of… — James A. Baldwin
• Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. — Honore de Balzac
• What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? — Honore de Balzac
• When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I… — Joyce Banda
• It's not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago - bringing a… — Tyra Banks

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