Shirley Jackson Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a taxi. A woman in Ohio had just had her seventeenth child. A twelve-year-old girl in Mexico had given birth to a thirteen-pound boy. The lead article on the woman's page was about how to adjust the older child to the new baby. I finally found an account of an axe murder on page seventeen, and held my coffee cup up to my face to see if the steam might revive me.

  Shirley Jackson

  Girl, Baby, Morning

  Shirley Jackson (1966). “The Magic of Shirley Jackson”, p.697, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

• I wonder if I could eat a child if I had the chance.' 'I doubt if I could cook one,' said Constance.

  Shirley Jackson

  Children, Doubt, Chance

  Shirley Jackson (2014). “We Have Always Lived in the Castle”, p.109, Obelix Books

• Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

  Shirley Jackson

  Children, Savages, Disrespectful

  Shirley Jackson (2008). “The Lottery”, p.29, The Creative Company

• In ten years I will be a beautiful charming lovely lady writer without any husband or children but lots of lovers and everyone will read the books I write and want to marry me but I will never marry any of them. I will have lots of money and jewels too.

  Shirley Jackson

  Beautiful, Children, Husband

• Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic assumption about how it is possible to teach things to children.

  Shirley Jackson

  Children, School, Assumption

• The idea of a series of items, following one another docilely, forms the only possible reasonable approach to life if you have to live it with a home and a husband and children, none of whom would dream of following one another docilely.

  Shirley Jackson

  Dream, Children, Husband

  Shirley Jackson (2015). “Life Among the Savages”, p.74, Penguin

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