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“As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day.”

Wells Children Home Mother Talking Issues Work Out Gender Partners Plenty Firm Gender Equality Stay At Home Live Every Day

Author:Hilary Rosen

“My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.”

Men Children Father Talking Bed Terror Rage My Sister

Author:Antonio Villaraigosa

“Talking to Lee Child and discovering, from his chapter in The Chopin Manuscript, that he's even more of an audio geek than I am (as his chapter in Chopin proves).”

Children Talking Prove Discovering Chapters Geek Manuscripts Audio

Author:David Hewson

“I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It's their children I love.”

Knows Children Book Mother Names Talking Adults Kingdoms

Author:Enid Blyton

“I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.”

Want Trying Children Wanted Jobs Courses Talking Influence Succeed My Children Occupation

Author:Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

“Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.”

Men Want Children Talking Youth Our Children Your Children Smartness

Author:E. W. Howe

“Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment. I like to kind of just talk in a general way to the audience. Children are always reaching.”

Ifs Way Years Believe Kind Children Littles Play Certain Talking Audience Adults Don't Believe Reaching Talking Down

Author:Walt Disney

“If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else.”

Ifs Want Trying Children Funny Talking Our Children Witty Your Children

Author:Ann Landers

“I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment.”

Believe Children Certain Talking Don't Believe Talking Down

Author:Walt Disney

“When I was child, I never spoke. Teacher used to write remarks on my note book. My mom sent me to a trainer. I started talking, and it gave me confidence.”

Writing Children Book Used Talking Teacher Mom Notes My Mom Spokes Remarks Trainers Note Book

Author:Boman Irani

“Does sex education encourage sex? Many parents are afraid that talking about sex with their teenagers will be taken as permission for the teen to have sex. Nothing could be further from the truth. If anything, the more children learn abour sexuality from talking with their parents and teachers and reading accurate books, the less they feel compelled to find out for themselves.”

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Author:Benjamin Spock

“[Children are] like talking animals. Their consciousness is so different from ours that they constitute a different species. They don't have to be particularly interesting children; just the fact that they are children is sufficient. They don't know what anything is, so they have to make it up. No matter how dull they are, they still have to figure things out for themselves.”

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Author:Fran Lebowitz

“I thought it would be lovely to use [pet bulldog] Noelle as an example to teach the importance of being who you are. For me it's important to inspire children in a positive way, and at times they understand more messages through entertainment than when one is talking to them directly.”

Way Children Important Use Would Be Talking Teach Example Inspire Messages Importance Who You Are Entertainment Lovely Pet Bulldogs

Author:Gloria Estefan

“Talking to the parents of older kids was helpful for me, since parents of kids the same age as yours won't admit how horrible their children are.”

Children Kids Age Parent Talking Horrible Helpful

Book:Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“The father spent his time talking and thinking of religion. He proclaimed himself an agnostic and was so absorbed in destroying the ideas of God that had crept into the minds of his neighbors that he never saw God manifesting himself in the little child that, half forgotten, lived here and there on the bounty of her dead mother's relatives.”

Thinking Mind Children Littles Ideas Mother Father Half Talking Saws Forgotten Neighbor Manifest Destroying Agnostic Here And There Bounty Dead Mother

Book:Winesburg, Ohio

Source: Winesburg, Ohio

“I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child's mind--seven and a half years old--I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.”

Men Years Mind Children Persons Done Young Names Voice Half Talking Five He Man Brother Seven My Children My Brother Five Years Half A Year

Author:Maya Angelou