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"My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author."
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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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"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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"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 unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
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"It is not that you give birth to a child that matters most. Rather, it is what you birth into them."
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"After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published."
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"After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college."
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"My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author."
Parenting

"Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy."
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"Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships."
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"We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."
Learning

"It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army."
War

"I loved all the world's mythologies."
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"When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States."
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"If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn."
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