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The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery. -- Martin Luther
Women who work at home rearing children and attending to various household tasks are expected to provide something that is absolutely essential yet costs nothing, like the air we breathe. -- Mary Jo Weaver
Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work? -- Gary Becker
As far as rearing children goes, the basic idea I try to keep in mind is that a child is a person. Just because they happen to be a little shorter than you doesn't mean they are dumber than you. -- Frank Zappa
I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so I am now well aware of the difficulties women who are rearing children face when they're also trying to make headway in mainstream of film. -- Diablo Cody
Pluck from under the family all the props which religion and morality have given it, strip it of the glamour, true or false, cast round it by romance, it will still remain a prosaic, indisputable fact, that the whole business of begetting, bearing and rearing children, is the most essential of all the nation's businesses. -- Eleanor Rathbone
Writing a book is like rearing children -- willpower has very little to do with it. If you have a little baby crying in the middle of the night, and if you depend only on willpower to get you out of bed to feed the baby, that baby will starve. You do it out of love. -- Annie Dillard
Child-rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking. -- Jessica Valenti
He had no imagination either-fatal for one engaged in child-rearing -- Mary Ann Shaffer
Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father. -- Sean Penn
We need to start talking about child-rearing in the workplace. -- Sheryl Sandberg
The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother. -- Christian Morgenstern
It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing. -- Alice Walker
A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children. -- Dave Barry
Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success. -- Tom DeMarco
Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval. -- Phil Donahue
They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
If writing and publishing a book is like giving birth to a child, then book marketing is like rearing it. -- Heather Hart
This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period. -- Anne Lamott
The reward of child rearing is spending the rest of your life proudly knowing this person you helped guide. Let him be himself. -- Mike Sager
No one who traces the history of motherhood, of the home, of child-rearing practices will ever assume the eternal permanence of our own way of institutionalizing them. -- Jessie Bernard
There's never been a civilization, ever in history, that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity and traditional marriage, traditional child rearing, and has survived. -- Pat Roberts

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