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My children have gone to Catholic school... Part of their whole education is talking about the inner life and looking at your life, even though you're only 15 or 16 - thinking about your mortality, thinking about the value of your life, thinking about your obligations.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: About Catholic Catholic School Children Education Even Gone Inner Inner Life Life Looking Mortality Obligations Only Part School Talking Thinking Though Value Whole You Your

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Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder.

~Alice Miller

Topics: Beaten Children Give Humiliated Humiliation Impose Intimidated Intimidating Souls Those Turn Who Whose Will

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The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.

~Alice Miller

Topics: Character Children Defend Fact Less Mistreated Parents Permitted Reason Temperament Than Themselves Were Why

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The men in those old days of the seventeenth century, when in constant dread of attacks by Indians, always rose when the services were ended and left the house before the women and children, thus making sure the safe exit of the latter.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: Always Attacks Before Century Children Constant Days Dread Ended Exit House Indians Latter Left Making Men Old Old Days Rose Safe Services Sure Those Thus Were Women Women And Children

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There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: Amsterdam Born Boston Children Colonial Crossed Fathers First Infancy Life New New World Ocean Pilgrims Sad Something Strange Those Thought Who World Years

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The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

~Alice Munro

Topics: About Children Come Deep Going Gone Half Here Home Latter Life Material Nursing Nursing Home Parents Personal Still Them Visit Want Write You Your

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I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn't breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children's mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Anxiety Attacks Because Breathe Children Duties Finish Got Grade Had Housewife How Judged Maybe Minus Mother Partly People Performed Roles Sentence Situation Surrounded Those Time Unable Way Would Write

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Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman's normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

~Alice Walker

Topics: About Alone Black Brown Children Colors Day-To-Day Different Different Colors Family Four Normal Our Part Red Relationship Tradition Woman Women Yellow

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We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Believe Children Earlier Much Must Nonviolence Our Sanity Start Teaching I Believe

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A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Again Artists Away Bone Children Collect Duty Future Geniuses Necessary Our People Sake Them Throw Thrown Witnesses

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