If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I'm with them forces me to be in the moment.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different.
I feel it in my bones that if I had a kid, I would not either continue to write or have written the book I have done. So it's just me and the dog. I've always gotten along better with animals than I have with children, anyway.
I love children. I'd prefer to be around children much more than adults, actually. And I like animals, too. I'm just really into beings who are at ease with themselves.
Animals interest me more than anything else.
I've always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than pets. I call it a birth affect!
Sometimes kids used to give me a hard time. But they're on my side.
In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.
Ever since I was a little girl, I have always loved animals and been fascinated with them.
Animals, until you have kids of your own, animals are your kids.
As a child, I was consumed with a near-obsessive curiosity about what the world felt like for other creatures.
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