“I was never a child. I was always a menopausal woman within a child's body.”

“I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.”

Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth

“Though my body gets older, I still commune with the child inside.”

Lorin Morgan-Richards (1975) American poet, cartoonist, and children's writer

“Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

“In this time I saw a body lying on the earth, which body shewed heavy and horrible, without shape and form, as it were a swollen quag of stinking mire. And suddenly out of this body sprang a full fair creature, a little Child, fully shapen and formed, nimble and lively, whiter than lily; which swiftly glided up into heaven. And the swollenness of the body betokeneth great wretchedness of our deadly flesh, and the littleness of the Child betokeneth the cleanness of purity in the soul. And methought: With this body abideth no fairness of this Child, and on this Child dwelleth no foulness of this body.”

Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress

“There is, and always will be, until every Black man, woman, and child is free, a Black Liberation Army. The main function of the Black.”

Assata Shakur (1947) American activist who was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army

“Ever since I was a child I never wanted to be anything else but a soldier.”

George S. Patton IV (1923–2004) U.S. Army general

“I never yell at kids. I just hug them hard and threaten them not to do something again. I would never be aggressive with a woman or a little child. I would rather die before I raise hand on a little kid or a lady.”

Shahrukh Khan (1965) Indian actor, producer and television personality

“Within the child lies the fate of the future.”

Maria Montessori (1870–1952) Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician

“I once loved a woman, a child I am told
I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist