Germaine Greer Quotes

I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility.

Bringing up children always has a bigger role for the mother.

It's sad but true that if you focus your attention on housework and meal preparation and diapers, raising children does start to look like drudgery pretty quickly. On the other hand, if you see yourself as nothing less than your child's nurturer, role model, teacher, spiritual guide, and mentor, your days take on a very different cast.

Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what you expect of them…I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb." "You can’t make a race horse of a pig." "No," said Samuel, "but you can make a very fast pig.

I would love to have kids one day. In fact, I'm pretty good with them. I grew up with five half-siblings, the youngest of whom is 11 years younger than me, so I think I learned some pretty cool parenting skills quite early on in life.

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

I have never had a nanny with any of my children.

I'll never get sick of raising my children, but other people might get sick of them.

There's no better way to unplug than having children. Changing diapers is one of the most leveling things that has ever happened to me.

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

Of course, a woman's choice to go out into the world is a very significant thing. But part of real liberation is recognizing that mothering is every bit as important as other kinds of work. I actually believe it's more important than anything we do out in the world.

To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.

And Grandmother Hall really imagines that she can raise Eleanor and her two brothers differently than these children were raised. And if she is very strict and everything is very regimented and ordered and disciplined, that they will become the perfect children who her own children did not become.

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

Caring for children has always been one of the deepest and most satisfying things that a human being does, and yet it is hard to keep a healthy attitude toward it in our competitive, outcome-oriented society.

The greatest job that any mother will ever do will be in nurturing, teaching, lifting, encouraging and rearing her children in righteousness and truth. None other can adequately take her place.

One has very little influence upon one's children. Their characters are what they are and one can do nothing to change them.

The children-my own and other people's-became the passion of my personal and professional life.

Parents can ruin children, and sometimes that's a learned behavior. Sometimes you can't blame your parents for it, sometimes you can. I think to me, that's what the whole paradox is, is people that have children that don't even know how to raise them.

Do the best you can. And remember that the greatest asset you have in this world is those children who you've brought into the world, and for whose nurture and care you're responsible.

Before you have kids, you just have much less to worry about. It doesn't feel that way, but it's true. Once you have kids, your focus has to change, I think, at least to raise kids right. You can't just focus on yourself; it's too hard.

I cannot live without children.

Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.