Raising Children Quotes

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

We're not raising children with the love that we need to.

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.