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"Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life."
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"Disciplining a child is easier than disciplining a grown person, and forgiving a child's insolence is easier than forgiving a grown person's impudence."
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"Don't box your children in and tell them that everything is a sin. You'll produce either rebels, or very boring people."
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"Every child gets a good mother, but not every mother gets a good child."
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"Effective parenting requires being the grown up version of what you want your children to be. Why? Because example is the most compelling superpower."
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"This is the one thing that I learnt from my father, and I approve of it fully. Abundance is neither good nor healthy for the growth of a child's mind."
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"Your love life is insignificant when it comes to raising your children to be respectable human beings. The moment you see them suffer or lower their standards because of your selfishness, is the day you should realize that nothing matters more than them. You are not just the queen or king of your fairy tale. The real story of your life is the gift of time God gave you with them."
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"In parenting patience is the greatest virtue."
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"Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them."
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"Mothers should be very careful what type of boys and men they create, or allow to be created."
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"The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters."
Writing
"I am against the notion of style in itself."
Style
"I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish."
Identity
"I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book."
Reading
"For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page."
Literature
"It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down."
Writing
"American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter."
Literature
"I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread."
Writing
"I think all writing is done through memory."
Memory
"I am a writer of fragments."
Writing
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