"Having children is what a woman is born for, really"

"The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water"

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

"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"

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

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

"Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth"

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

"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"

"The soul is healed by being with children"