“It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.”

Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.

I will never forgive Joe for that awful operation he had performed on Rosemary. It is the only thing I have ever felt bitter toward him about.

I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.

I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.

My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.

I am not going to be licked by tragedy, as life is a challenge, and we must carry on and work for the living as well as mourn for the dead.

My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.

As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem that the birth and rearing of children, in the way which to us seems most ideal, would be the most satisfying and the most rewarding career for a woman.

I’ve had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.

To my mind, there was no one in the world like my father. Wherever he was, there was magic in the air.

I don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed.

I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.

I don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.

I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.

Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

If we are to reach real peace in the world, we shall have to begin with the children.

If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.