“Every child has to raise itself.”
“and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.”
“By raising a child we should also help raise our children's generation, not just raise him or her alone.”
“A grandchild is God's reward for raising a child.”
“The earth. Silently spinning, falling, breaking, reforming each and every millionth of a second. The earth, whose conspiracy it is to give everything it has, to offer up itself and only itself, and all of itself. Then to take back, one at a time, all it has given, every richness, every fragment, every follicle, folding it deep into the furnace of its heart, in a cold and perfect contract.”
“The best way to raise a child is to LAY OFF!”