Jane Smiley Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.

  Jane Smiley

  Children, Ideas, May

  FaceBook post by Jane Smiley from Jul 28, 2012

• Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'

  Jane Smiley

  Children, Fall, Writing

  FaceBook post by Jane Smiley from Jan 11, 2012

• But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses

  Jane Smiley

  Girl, Horse, Children

  Jane Smiley (2014). “A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck”, p.38, Faber & Faber

• I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that shakes up who you think you are, even who you had prided yourself on being. When all those around you say they simply don't recognize you any longer, that's the real compliment.

  Jane Smiley

  Children, Real, Thinking

• There are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put it off.

  Jane Smiley

  Children, Driving, Introducing

  "Driving: a parent's nightmare" by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2010.

• I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.

  Jane Smiley

  Children, House, Noise

• Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is one that has benefited all of them.

  Jane Smiley

  Children, Nuclear, Four

  "Divorce! It’s Good for the Children!" by Jane Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2010.

• I have reared, or helped to rear, five children and the scariest bit, bar none, is the learning to drive part. It has filled me with anxiety not only about the children, but also about my former self and my friends.

  Jane Smiley

  Children, Self, Anxiety

  "Driving: a parent's nightmare" by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2010.

• When I went to first grade and the other children said that their fathers were farmers, I simply didn't believe them. I agreed in order to be polite, but in my heart I knew that those men were impostors, as farmers and as fathers, too. In my youthful estimation, Laurence Cook defined both categories. To really believe that others even existed in either category was to break the First Commandment.

  Jane Smiley

  Children, Father, Believe

  FaceBook post by Jane Smiley from Jun 15, 2014

• I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.

  Jane Smiley

  Children, Believe, Parent

  "Divorce! It’s Good for the Children!" by Jane Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2010.

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