I teach child development and social policy as an undergraduate course, and I tell my students, "Look, on any of these issues, if you don't want to work on it for thirty years, don't start."

The best indicator of quality day care is the kid wants to go there, and doesn't want to go home.

It's also the environment that determines a considerable part of the growth and development of children.

We have to stop harming children in child care. I'm trying to make us stop. I wouldn't know what to do otherwise.

So there's much more to life than one's intelligence score. To be a decent human being. To have some character.

All of us know high-I.Q. people with whom we don't want to be in the same room.

You win what you can win when you can win it, and keep pushing - all the time. And that's how this game is played. And I'll play it till I can't play it anymore.

I study children, and they're my subjects in my studies. They're my colleagues, really, all these little kids. And I owe them.

The problem in child care, which really all of us are going to have to think hard on, is that there is no really great solution that we can come up with for ages zero to three.

I don't think if you take somebody's temperature a lot that will make them well.

Most mothers and fathers will shop more for a TV set than they will for a child care center for their child.

I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

You're in my personal space, so get out of it.

[My job is] a very high trapeze act, frequently with no net.

Everything starts with a dream, a particle of our imagination that teases us of what the future could be like, as long as we fight for it.

Lady Queen," he said, "You've given me all I want. You're the queen a librarian dreams of.

I love children. I work with UNICEF and one of the reasons I love that is because they deal specifically with children. For me I think it's just really important to always embrace that side of you.

God, find us on our knees because we know that when we get our knees, You extend Your powerful right hand.

It is important to make a dream of life and a dream reality.

I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do.

There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.