“Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.”
Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her
Source: This Is How You Lose Her
“The Institution has been devised to afford the means of receiving your children at an early age, almost as soon as they can walk. By this means many of you, mothers and families, will be able to earn a better maintenance or support for your children; you will have less care and anxiety about them, while the children will be prevented from acquiring any bad habits. and gradually prepared to learn the best.”
Address to the Inhabitants of New Lanark (1816)
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