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"Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in."
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"Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate."
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"The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so."
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"The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be."
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"I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends."
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"Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong."
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"No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side."
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"We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories."
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"After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise."
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"Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself."
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"Why, when I was a child, I didn't say, as most children do, that I was going to become an actress. I felt that I was an actress and no one could have convinced me that I wasn't!"
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"Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves."
Children
"A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way."
Children
"If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents."
Blame
"Eating without conversation is only stoking."
Conversation
"When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating."
Job
"One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements."
Friendship
"Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in."
Children
"A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by a mother who sees that the others get it."
Family
"Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door."
Being
"Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans."
Gardening
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