Sally Phillips Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.

  Sally Phillips

  Children, Topshop, Jewelry

• Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free.

  Sally Phillips

  Children, Way, Syndromes

  "Down’s Son Is ‘Joy’ for Sally Phillips". The Lady Magazine Interview, www.express.co.uk. April 06, 2011.

• The siblings of special needs children are quite special. Absolutely accepting and totally loving, from birth, someone who is different mentally, and has a different way of seeing the world, is a wonderful trait. It's a trait I wish there was another way of getting, but there isn't. And it does involve a degree of not having it fantastically easy.

  Sally Phillips

  Children, Sibling, Special

• When I got pregnant with my first child I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: "I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant." That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.

  Sally Phillips

  Children, Cake, Weight

  "My body & soul". Interview with Laura Potter, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.

• What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not.

  Sally Phillips

  Children, Pregnancy, Book

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