“For some kids, the classroom setting is the place where their genius is hardest to see and their challenges are easiest to see. And since they spend so much time in the classroom, that’s a tough break for these little guys. But if we are patient and calm and we wear our perspectacles and we keep believing, we will eventually see the specific magic of each child.”
Source: Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed
“But Saeed, Saeed, the children are our only hope!”
“I matter to my children. My children depend on me for their basic needs. My children need my love and nurturance. My attitudes, behaviors, and words influence and impact their lives.”
Source: Pilates for Parenting: Stretch Yourself and Strengthen Your Family
“But it is the children I have to come back to, my children Elisabeth, Caroline, Theodore, my joy, my pride, my loves. If I had not broken the law and aborted that life nobody wanted, they would have been aborted by a cruel, bigoted, and senseless law. They would never have been born. This thought I cannot bear. I beg you to see what it is that we must save, and not to let the bigots and misogynists take it away from us again. Save what we won: our children. You who are young, before it's too late, save your children.”
Source: Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016
“Walk into the sacred mountains and get in touch with divine grace.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“That thing that happens to you in the shower, babe. It’s called thinking. It’s something folks did before Google. Thinking is like…it’s like googling your own brain.”
Source: Untamed
“If no child of mine
becomes a poet
will the absence of my tongue shimmer
like betrayal
in their mouths?”
Source: blud
“Thinking about adults putting on a happy face for children, or worse, being unable to put on the happy face, is devastating. That we maintain this dishonesty with them, that we must. I have a longing to protect the kids from coming into some consciousness of the fact that taking care of them is difficult. I always imagined that keeping that fact from them was an essential part of good mothering.”
Source: Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love
“Secrets keep families sick. You never keep secrets in families because even if the child doesn't know what the secret is, they will always know there is a secret.”
Source: The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
“Children were idealized by Wordsworth and un-idealized by Freud. Marx was the Wordsworth of the proletariat; its Freud is still to come.”
Source: Unpopular Essays