children Quotes

Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years - about twice as long as other bears - between having cubs. And after they're pregnant, if winter is hard or their health is not good or the food supply is uncertain, they re-absorb the embryo into their body.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

You know there is a person inside every baby, right? And anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there.

As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility.

When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to talk about how they missed having real fathers, real loving, present fathers, because of the way that they tried to fit the picture of masculinity.

Children are short people. Some you like, some you don't.

In Sweden, both parents take care of the children.

I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.