Having Children Quotes - Page 5

• You have to empathize with your children. If you love them, you never really get too angry with them when they make a mistake, because kids are expected to make mistakes. Having children, you start to see yourself through them.

  Terry Crews

  Children, Mistake, Kids

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame. So it would have had more disadvantages than advantages for them.

  Albert Ellis

  Children, Kids, Degrees

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• Having children can be such a gift, but it can be a crushing experience for a certain kind of mom. And I am that certain kind of mom.

  Victoria Chang

  Crush, Mom, Children

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I remember there was this one lady shaman who said that having children puts a hole in your soul. And the only way to get it back is for your children to die. And, you know, monks don't have families.

  Larkin Grimm

  Children, Soul, Way

  "Swinging Modern Sounds #35: The Location Of The Soul". Interview with Rick Moody, therumpus.net. April 20, 2012.

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• Success is a balance thing, it's about work and play together, so we need to work on how we embrace that. The conversation we need to keep having is how women and businesses learn to embrace women having children.

  Mary Portas

  Children, Play, Balance

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• I had nixed the idea of having children when I was myself a child, having learned in the 1960s that human overpopulation was literally crowding other species off the planet. Why create another mouth to gnaw at the overburdened earth?

  Sy Montgomery

  Nature, Children, Animal

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• I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but I grew up thinking that it would make me marginal, prevent me from having children, and quite possibly prevent me from having a meaningful long relationship. It seemed that this condition would leave me with a vastly reduced life.

  Andrew Solomon

  Meaningful, Children, Growing Up

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• In coming to an appreciation of the Mormon Church, one of the things that has been most compelling to me is the Mormon understanding of family, which extends beyond the general injunction to be fruitful and multiply, and addresses the permanence of love relationships into eternity, and embraces the sanctity of having children.

  Andrew Solomon

  Appreciation, Children, Understanding

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not like eating ice cream.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Ice Cream, Eating

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• Having children has made me incredibly efficient. It's hard to leave them in the mornings, but I'm extremely productive during the day, knowing I want to be fully focused on them when I get home.

  Ivanka Trump

  Morning, Children, Home

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• So many things that you can ask children hopefully pique their interest and they can design and think for themselves. Having children draw and illustrate what they saw in their minds' eyes during the story is a tremendous teaching aid.

  Julie Andrews

  Children, Teaching, Eye

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The fact that traditionally 'female' jobs are paid less, that women end up working part-time because they're societally pressured into caring roles, and that having children has a negative impact on women's wages but a positive impact on men's, are all problems that should deeply concern us, not 'explanations' that can be happily accepted.

  Laura Bates

  Jobs, Children, Caring

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• On the whole, you can have a private life and be famous. But when milestones happen in your life like having children or getting married, privacy goes out of the window. 

  Jo Brand

  Children, Privacy, Married

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• Having children, you have so much more structure in your life. The open-endedness of being a single woman is gone, you know? It's sort of like, from 1 P.M. to 3 P.M. the kids are going to take a nap, so now I have time to sit down and write the lyrics, or once they're put to bed, I have a few hours to focus on those things. I need that. It's a very strange process, really - I can never predict what's going to happen. It always feels uncomfortable and awkward.

  Karen Elson

  Children, Kids, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [On gender-rating by insurance companies:] They say the reason they get to charge more is we have children. I would say having children is a socially useful act. Being female is not a preexisting condition.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Female, Reason

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• The women's movement and gay and lesbian movements always come together, and our adversaries are always the same because the male supremacist, patriarchal, ultra-right-wing, religious fundamentalists, whatever you want to call it is devoted to saying that sex is only moral and okay when it is directed towards having children and occurs in patriarchal marriage, so the children are owned.

  Gloria Steinem

  Religious, Sex, Children

  Source: bigthink.com

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• So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children.

  Saint Augustine

  Children, Sake, Partners

  St Augustine, Saint Augustine of Hippo (2003). “Sermons 273-305”, p.55

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• My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn’t achieve the things she wanted to.

  Natalie Merchant

  Mother, Children, Achieve

  "Natalie Merchant On Motherhood As Muse". Interview with Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.

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• Having children and raising them will bring new purpose and new life to Heaven. It will not be the end of everything, but the beginning!

  David Berg

  Children, Heaven, New Life

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• Having children is a huge responsibility, and I just don't want to hand them off to a nanny or my mom to take care of them.

  Thalia

  Mom, Children, Responsibility

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• More than any other personality trait, my mother seemed to be ruled by anger and sadness. She seemed to hate being a mother. Watching her unhappiness as I grew up made me conclude that the answer was to try and be as unemotional as I could, which many therapists have taught me is a bad idea. It also made me want to avoid marriage and having children.

  Merrill Markoe

  Mother, Children, Hate

  Interview with Litsa Dremousis, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

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• STRANGELOVE REPRODUCTION: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.

  Douglas Coupland

  Children, Believe, Facts

  1991 Generation X,'Define Normal'.

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• Now, it's common knowledge that most towns of a certain size have a witch, if only to eat misbehaving children and the occasional puppy who wanders into her yard.

  John August

  Children, Big Fish, Yards

  "Fictional character: Edward Bloom". Big Fish, 2003.

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• We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. Nor should we represent motherhood as something so common and easy that everyone can go through it without harm or suffering and rear her children competently and well.

  Dora Russell

  Children, Motherhood, Knowing

  "Hypatia". Book by Dora Russell, ch. 4, 1925.

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• Having children has helped me become a better actor because they remind you to play make believe. It's the ease and naturalness of their beings. They just play and it's completely real for them at the time. As an actor, if we do it well, we make you believe.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Children, Real, Believe

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