Francesca Lia Block Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Just like any woman,...we weave our stories out of our bodies. Some of us through our children, or our art; some do it just by living. It's all the same.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Art, Children, Stories

• I will be thin and pure like a glass cup. Empty. Pure as light. Music. I move my hands over my body - my shoulders, my collarbone, my rib cage, my hip bones like part of an animal skull, my small thighs. In the mirror my face is pale and my eyes look bruised. My hair is pale and thin and the light comes through. I could be a lot younger than seventeen. I could be a child still, untouched.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Children, Moving, Eye

  Francesca Lia Block (2009). “The Hanged Man”, p.14, Harper Collins

• I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out of the isolation of motherhood.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Children, Motherhood, Thinking

• Any alphabet book for children where 'P is for Patti' Smith and 'X is for the women whose names we don't know' is something I can recommend, especially when the book is as well written, representationa lly diverse and vividly illustrated as this one.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Children, Book, Names

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