There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.
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I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past.
Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.
Children aren't just our future. They're our present.
I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.
When I was growing up in the Forties and Fifties, you could hide your children from the difficulties of life, but today you can't separate children's contact with the adult world today.
As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them.
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
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