"I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy"

"The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water"

"A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition"

"If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses"

"A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings"

"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman"

"At the heart of the Reggio Emilia approach is the belief that children are full of potential, competent, and capable of constructing their own learning"

"Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly"

"The soul is healed by being with children"