If I could make only one wish for a child, I'd wish him the quality of lovingness.

I really learned it all from mothers.

A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.

I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.

I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations.