"To me the early childhood story is an ecumenical one. You take poverty seriously. You take seriously maternal depression. You take seriously children under stress and you take seriously the effects of extended hours participation in poor quality care. Those are the facts I begin with."

-- Robert Manne

#Children Quotes #Stress Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“I like the idea of exercising, but I never do.”
“I've got an adjective that just fits you.”
“A great body is a gift you give yourself”
“Shaka Zulu had an all-female force of fighters. Women have been part of every resistance movement. Women dressed as men and went to war, went to sea, and participated actively in combat for as long as there have been people.”

Source : Kameron Hurley (2016). “The Geek Feminist Revolution”, p.263, Macmillan
“You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.”
“Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it's important is that, fundamentally, when we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn't just ourselves that we're discovering. We're discovering the universe.”
“There is no experience like having children...If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.”
“I once dated a weather girl, we talked up a storm.”

You may also like:

Clive Hamilton
Professor
Jemima Khan
Journalist
Julian Burnside
Barrister
Mark Latham
Former Australian Federal MP
Paul Keating
Former Prime Minister of Australia
Raimond Gaita
Philosopher
Ramona Koval
Broadcaster
Wilfred Burchett
Journalist
Alex Gibney
Film director