"I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well"

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

"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"

"Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent"

"It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour"

"A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere"

"Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale"

"I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation"

"Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage"

"I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children"

"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely"