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Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage.

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I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that's missing the point.

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You're not lonely when you're teaching, you're not quiet, you're laughing most of the time, you're having a wonderful time interacting with young people. It's the best fun in the world.

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I have very little patience with children.

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I think that my favourite animal is a baby possum, or a joey. The face of a really little joey is so divine - so, so gorgeous.

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I don't know why some people have children at all if they know that they can only take a few weeks off work.

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Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.

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You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.

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I made a lot of friends at school, and they were all Africans. I could have felt very different. I didn't feel different, I didn't notice the color of their skin, I didn't notice the color of my skin and I have remembered that all my life.

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My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Writer

Born: March 5th, 1946

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