"My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor."

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

Parenting, Parents, Party, Poor

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"My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor."

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"Then Siddhartha began to understand that his son had not brought him happiness and peace, but suffering and worry. But he loved him, and he preferred the suffering and worries of love over happiness and joy without the boy."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

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"Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Parenting, Motherhood, Risk, Loss, Love

"It's so awful, attacking your child. It's the worse thing I know, to shout loudly at this 50 lb. being with his huge trusting brown eyes. It's like bitch-slapping E.T."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Parenting, Anger, Children, Guilt

"Most parents are not really 'supportive' because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they 'support' their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures - in the eyes of their peers and/or neighbours."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Parenting, Truth, Life, Power, Wisdom

"My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"A parents wishes for their children shouldn't be to be as good as them but to surpass their own abilities and hopefully lead to a better world."

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

Parenting, Children, World, Future

"What is a parent, really, but somebody who picks up the things a child leaves behind - a trail made of stripped off clothing, orphaned shoes, tiny bright plastic game pieces, and nostalgia - and who hands back each of these when its needed?"

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Parenting, Memory, Love, Truth, Family

"He was incapable of untruth; never tampered with a fact; never altered a disagreeable word to suit the pleasure or convenience of any mortal being, least of all his own children, who, sprung from his loins, should be aware from childhood that life is difficult; facts uncompromising; and the passage to that fabled land where our brightest hopes are extinguished, our frail barks founder in darkness (here Mr. Ramsay would straighten his back and narrow his little blue eyes upon the horizon), one that needs, above all, courage, truth, and the power to endure."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Parenting, Truth, Reality, Honesty

"Our parents thought we might be corrupted by one another into becoming whatever it was they most feared: an incorrigible masturbator, a winsome homosexual, a recklessly impregnatory libertine. On our behalf they dreaded the closeness of adolescent friendship, the predatory behaviour of strangers on trains, the lure of the wrong kind of girl. How far their anxieties outran our experience."

Julian Barnes, English Writer

Parenting, Adolescence, Fear, Friendship, Observation

"The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child's heart is worth."

Dan Pearce, American Author

Parenting, Love, Decision, Risk

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"I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course."

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"American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter."

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"Then Siddhartha began to understand that his son had not brought him happiness and peace, but suffering and worry. But he loved him, and he preferred the suffering and worries of love over happiness and joy without the boy."

"Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child."

"It's so awful, attacking your child. It's the worse thing I know, to shout loudly at this 50 lb. being with his huge trusting brown eyes. It's like bitch-slapping E.T."

"Most parents are not really 'supportive' because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they 'support' their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures - in the eyes of their peers and/or neighbours."

"My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had."

"A parents wishes for their children shouldn't be to be as good as them but to surpass their own abilities and hopefully lead to a better world."

"What is a parent, really, but somebody who picks up the things a child leaves behind - a trail made of stripped off clothing, orphaned shoes, tiny bright plastic game pieces, and nostalgia - and who hands back each of these when its needed?"

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"Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story."

"That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all."

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"I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course."

"American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter."

"But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that."

"The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters."