“Children have the unforgivable habit of growing up”
“All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.”
“They said - Adults need to have fun so children will want to grow up.”
“Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone, not teasing them with perpetual commands and directions - a running fire of Do and Don’t ; but letting them go their own way and grow, having first secured that they will go the right way and grow to fruitful purpose.”
“Growing up on the fringe, you came to accept hard truths. Nothing was fair. the world was cold, unforgiving, and people died. it was just the way things were.”
“People born in Amagasaki grow up, get married, have children, and die wearing tracksuits.”