"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"

"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"

"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"

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

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

"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"

"Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked"