“There is some irony in the fact that children imagine that parents can do what they want, and parents imagine that children do.”

— Shulamith Firestone , book The Dialectic of Sex

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The Dialectic of Sex (1970)

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Feminist 1945–2012

Shulamith Firestone book The Dialectic of Sex

“I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children”

Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“In great states, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents wanting to make men and women of them. In vile states, the children are always wanting to be men and women, and the parents to keep them children.”

John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic

Mornings in Florence, part III, section 49 (1875).

“Most of the parents I interviewed for this book said they would never want other children than the ones they had, which at first seemed surprising given the challenges their children embody. But why do any of us prefer our own children, all of them defective in some regard, to others real or imagined? If some glorious angel descended into my living room and offered to exchange my children for other, better children—brighter, kinder, funnier, more loving, more disciplined, more accomplished—I would clutch the ones I have and, like most parents, pray away the atrocious specter.”

Andrew Solomon (1963) American journalist

Source: Far from the Tree, Ch. 12 Father, p. 698.

“Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave
When they think that their children are naive.”

Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet

"Baby, What Makes the Sky Blue?"

“When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: A stodgy parent is not fun at all! What a child wants - and DESERVES - is a parent who is SPARKY!”

Roald Dahl book Danny, the Champion of the World

Danny, the Champion of the World (1975)
Context: A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book - When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY.

“It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.”

Joyce Maynard (1953) American writer

“Any parent wants the best for their children. I am not going to make a choice for my child on the basis of what is the politically correct thing to do.”

Tony Blair (1953) former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

"Mr Blair opts out", Guardian, 2 December 1994. Statement on 1 December 1994, defending his decision to send his eldest son Euan to the London Oratory School which had opted out of local education authority control under a policy which the Labour Party opposed.
1990s

“A wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and — by some sad, strange irony — it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy.”

E.M. Forster book Where Angels Fear to Tread

Source: Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), Ch. 7

“Sunday school: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

“There is some irony in the fact that children imagine that parents can do what they want, and parents imagine that children do.”

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