"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own"

"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"

"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"

"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization"

"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"

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

"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"

"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance"

"Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father"