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Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.

But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.

Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

Fear is the passion of slaves.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.