I don't mind saying in advance that in my opinion jealousy is normal and healthy. Jealousy arises out of the fact that children love. If they have no capacity to love, then they don't show jealousy.

We fight to exist. Personally, I am not ashamed of fighting to exist. We are doing no very extraordinary thing to fight simply because we do not wish to be enslaved or exterminated.

It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative.

It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.

It's only too easy to idealise a mother's job. We know well that every job has its frustrations and its boring routines and its times of being the last thing anyone would choose to do. Well, why shouldn't the care of babies and children be thought of that way too?

There is no such thing as a baby, there is a baby and someone.

Feeling real is more than existing; it is finding a way to exist as oneself... and to have a self into which to retreat for relaxation.