That's so important for children when they're growing up, to have a strong male role model.
Young children and old ladies have inspired me more than poets and philosophers.
Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.
I am so happy that I didn't have children. Well, you know, because I've had freedom. And I've so loved my freedom.
Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of a lack of fitness.
I think it's really good for a family or children to have a dog, cat, bird or whatever to grow up with.
I have these beautiful children and this extraordinary family, and to think in any way shape or form that that's wrong or that there's shame in that or that there's something to hide actually turns my stomach.
Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.
Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts, but I guess we'll see.
I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
When women earn more, families are stronger, and children have better access to quality health care and education.
What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?
When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
You have to discipline your children, or they won't respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else.
Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.
Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse responded. So the studio did have that skill to communicate with images.
Children have a very good idea of how to distinguish between fantasies and realities. It's just they are equally interested in exploring both.
The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life.
If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor.
Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.
