"Planned parenthood" in the social history of the Western countries is, indeed, a phenomenon instrin-sically related to those very changes in peoples attitudes which, on the political plane, have been causing the trend towards economic planning.

We are the buffoons of our children.

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter; they increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears: they cannot utter the one, nor they will not utter the other.

I could never become accustomed to American mothers' reckless disregard for their daughters' moral welfare.

We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

In the mind of a woman, to give birth to a child is the short cut to omniscience.