I have very little patience with children.

When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.

I don't know why some people have children at all if they know that they can only take a few weeks off work.

I have very little patience with children.

I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.

You're not lonely when you're teaching, you're not quiet, you're laughing most of the time, you're having a wonderful time interacting with young people. It's the best fun in the world.

I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.