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Source: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

“If we have a decent sort of cat to begin with, and have always treated it courteously, and aren't cursed with meddling, bullying natures, it's a pleasure to let it do as it pleases. With children, this would be wicked and irresponsible, so raising children involves a lot of effort and friction. They need to be taught how to tie their shoes and multiply fractions, they need to be punished for pocketing candy in the grocery store, they need to be washed and combed and forced to clean up their rooms and say please and thank you. A cat is our relief and our reward.”

Source: Secrets of the Cat: It's [sic] Lore, Legend, and Lives

“For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.”

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Author:Khalil Gibran

“How can one explain all the time and thought that goes into raising a child, all the opportunities for mistakes, all the chances to recover and try again? How does one break the news that nothing permanent can be formed in an instant--children are not weaned, potty trained, taught manners, introduced to civilization in one or two tries--as everyone imagined.”

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Author:Mary Blakely

“Recognizing that family self-sufficiency is a false myth, we also need to acknowledge that all today's families need help in raising children. The problem is not so much to reeducate parents but to make available the help they need and to give them enough power so that they can be effective advocates with and coordinators of the other forces that are bringing up their children.”

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Author:Kenneth Keniston

“Parents still have primary responsibility for raising children, but they must have the power to do so in ways consistent with their children's needs and their own values.... We must address ourselves less to the criticism and reform of parents themselves than to the criticism and reform of the institutions that sap their self-esteem and power.”

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Book:All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.”

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Book:Controversial Essays

Source: Controversial Essays

“Raising children is a journey generously sprinkled with what many view as teachable moments, perhaps none as challenging as those surrounding faith and religion.”

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Author:Judy Woodruff

“Motherhood - no matter if you're a working mom or stay at home mom - is really tough sometimes. It can really leave us each day with a sense of wondering if we're doing it right. You know, it's a long term investment. You don't see big returns in the short term. Raising a child can easily pull you into being hyper-focused on the tough everyday moments of life.”

“Making a film is like raising a child. You have to be there every step of the way, guide it, provide for it, and finally let it go into the real world and hope you have done a good job. If you don't absolutely love your film then you will loss interest in it and the movie will suffer.”

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Author:Nicholas Ozeki

“The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.”

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Author:Gloria Steinem

“Everyone has a self-destructive nature in them. It's whether you feed it or not. You don't have to be a pop star to feel connected to destruction or self-destruction. But self-destruction is self-obsession, and self-obsession is not really possible if you're engaged in raising children. And if you have a spiritual life, you're constantly being asked to see yourself as one small fragment in the bigger picture.”

“There are so many common occurrences in raising children that people just can't seem to figure out.”

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Author:Andy Andrews

“It was important to me that people know that you can make plays and raise children at the same time - for other mothers, for other parents, for other women considering having children and who want to be working and thinking and contemplating and making things while they're raising children.”

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Author:Sarah Ruhl

“Being a judge is sometimes like raising children: litigants get the time they need, not necessarily the time they want, and you have to earn people's respect by communicating to them that you're going to listen, follow the law and make a fair decision.”

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Author:Steven Pacey

“Without my women friends, I wouldn't know anything. They've been my teachers and my mothers. My mother was a wonderful person, but she didn't give me a lot of the stuff I needed to advance myself as an adult woman. I have a really strong group of girlfriends, and we share a lot with one another - the complications of raising children, marriages, personal and physical struggles.”

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Author:Jamie Lee Curtis

“It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.”

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Author:Kevin Kelly

“Write. Remember, people may keep you (or me) from being a published author but no one can stop you from being a writer. All you have to do is write. And keep writing. While you’re working at a career, while you’re raising children, while you’re trout fishing--keep writing! No one can stop you but you.”

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Author:Katherine Neville

“Raising a child is very much like building a skyscraper. If the first few stories are slightly out of line. no one will notice. But when the building is 18 or 20 stories high, everyone will see that it tilts.”

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Author:Jim Bishop

“In Taiwan there's a saying: Raising a child is more important than giving birth. Raising a child is greater.”

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Author:Chien-Ming Wang

“Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.”

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Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“Our children do not need a makeover, they just need to be understood. If you understand their emotional needs now, you can save them a lifetime of searching for what they never had as a child.”

“Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens.”

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Author:Frank Pittman

“Your children need your presence more than your presents.”

“The secret to raising children is to love them... And teach them to operate in a way you can tolerate them the best.”

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Author:Bob Saget

“Marriage is about raising children. That's the purpose of the institution.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“More and more men are raising children or want to be close to their kids. They don't want to just lead work-obsessed lives and end up 50 years later with an engraved watch.”

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Author:Gloria Steinem

“Our practices - our most spiritual practices - are hanging laundry on the line, raising children, building strong relationships, practicing kindness as much as we can, striving for excellence in the workplace, and developing deeper self-knowledge. I wrote The Four Purposes of Life to assist in these endeavors.”

“Enforcement priorities developed by my administration are not affected by this ruling. This means that the people who might have benefited from the expanded deferred action policies, long-term residents raising children who are Americans or legal residents, they will remain low priorities for enforcement, as long as you have not committed a crime, our limited immigration enforcement resources are not focused on you.”

“Raising children made me determine what I stand for, what I believe in, and who I want to be because, ultimately, I'm who they'll look to as an example.”

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Author:Candace Cameron

“Raising children pushed me to walk the walk and practice life as I preach it.”

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Author:Candace Cameron

“Raising children has given me a compassionate and gracious heart for all children and people, realizing we don't always know the circumstances behind closed doors.”

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Author:Candace Cameron

“Raising children has made me more patient and selfless.”

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Author:Candace Cameron

“Raising children changes everything. It's a complete cliché to say that, but it's really true.”

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Author:Christopher Gorham

“Kids are a lesson every day, and being married is a lesson every day, but I think having a boutique and running it with my husband and having our careers and raising children was something that was really an eye-opener all the time.”

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Author:Lisa Rinna

“When we prioritize and focus... and that becomes the anchor... the relationship becomes the anchor... and it trumphs everything else... than it's at once freeing and anxiety relieving... because the connection itself feeds empowerment and self-worth and self-esteem so it takes away the anxiety of raising a child.”

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Author:Shefali Tsabary

“Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it.”

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Author:Diane Keaton

“My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”

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Author:Clarence Budington Kelland

“If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.”

“Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul.”

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Author:Anne Lamott

“There are many important elements to being a parent. A lot of people don't have fathers but they might have someone in their life who's a good male influence and support. There's no cookie-cutter way of raising children and no family is the same, but the most important thing is that children are loved, supported and cared for, whether it's coming from a relative or a friend or a grandfather or a good school teacher. Anyone. Children just need good examples and mentoring to teach them and show them how to do things.”

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Author:Liv Tyler

“People always ask us women about how we balance our lives. Rarely do they ever ask men this but we are asked this and it makes a lot of sense - balance, right? It sounds right. And of course you do have to balance because otherwise you'd go crazy. And you do have to find ways of doing things in a sensible manner, raising children and all those choices. But then there's a part of creativity which is irrational and which is obsessive and then that's also part of what we do. So, I don't think that's a bad thing. I think that's part of what makes someone good.”

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Author:Annette Bening

“Do I believe in coupling? Do I believe in commitment? Do I believe in co-parenting, raising children together, having a family, and growing old with someone? I absolutely believe in all of those things. I just don't believe that you need to be married to do that.”

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Author:Laura Wasser

“Mostly, I stand in awe of the every day women I knew from childhood that I interact with on Facebook. They struggle with juggling careers and raising children, endure hardships and occasional setbacks and yet do so with humility, grace and a sense of humor. Now that is inspiring!”

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Author:Kambri Crews

“There's plenty to read about keeping your sanity while raising children, but it's all common-sense stuff about task division and taking breaks and the relentlessly repeated magic of date night with your spouse. What's missing is some 'tude.”

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Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.”

“Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.”

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Author:Dee Dee Myers

“I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.”

“Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.”

Source: The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig

“I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.”

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Author:Tyler Perry

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