Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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Women somehow get portrayed as one type. You're either a feminist or you're not. You're a working woman or you're not. I'm raising two girls, and I say to them, 'I need you to be strong and soft. You can be smart and beautiful...You can be all of those things.'

More kids are ruined by the behavior of their parents than by the amount they inherit. Children learn from your actions.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings.

In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.

Isaac Rosenfeld

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

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