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I was only one of hundreds of thousands of Yazidi victims.

— Nadia Murad

One has very little influence upon one's children. Their characters are what they are and one can do nothing to change them.

— Andre Maurois

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded.…

— Vivienne Westwood

I couldn't be more proud of my eight beautiful children and wouldn't change anything about them or their heritage.

— Kate Gosselin

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

— David Rockefeller

After spending 460 days as a hostage, I did emerge a fundamentally changed person. But I think, like everyone does as they grow older…

— Amanda Lindhout

Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know…

— Aimee Bender

Great changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only in the minds of little children.

— Herbert Read

My children came along at a perfect time in my life. My career was soaring, and they didn't care who I thought I was.…

— Sissy Spacek

I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the…

— Naomi Benaron

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

— Kingsley Amis

“I didn't like what that word-'childhood'-conjured up, or rather, I didn't like the way most people use it: that presumption of innocence and starry-eyed…

— Jean-Christophe Valtat