#child

I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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I rarely read children's books. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's! ↗

— Patsy Cline

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I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

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