"In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers"

"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent"

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

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

"What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin"

"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"

"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"

"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles"

"The soul is healed by being with children"

"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them"