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Emma Thompson

"Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals."

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Donna Grant

"Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"Every child gets a good mother, but not every mother gets a good child."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"In parenting patience is the greatest virtue."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"Mothers should be very careful what type of boys and men they create, or allow to be created."

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Emma Thompson
"Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening."

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Emma Thompson
"I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately."

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Emma Thompson
"I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs."

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Emma Thompson
"But certainly in Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa, people don't really talk about sex and certainly religious leaders - some of them - up to now have been very unwilling to accept, for instance, the promotion of condom use."

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Emma Thompson
"My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman."

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Emma Thompson
"We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic."

Men

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Emma Thompson
"It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly."

Life

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Emma Thompson
"And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?"

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Emma Thompson
"The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently."

Society

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Emma Thompson
"I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I'm trying to communicate with people here and in America - in rich countries - about what I see on the ground in badly affected areas."

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