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Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.

— Beryl Bainbridge

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Well, I mean she's of a certain biological age but she didn't have to go around with fat patches and stuff.

— Stockard Channing

I wasn't the kid who lined up her toys, although when it came to Barbies and that little traveling wardrobe with the drawers and the little shoes, my stuff was always on hangers and the shoes were always in pairs. Things had their places.

— Jamie Lee Curtis

If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first.

— Larry Bird

I know what she used to do sometimes. She kept her best cape she wore on the street in there, and she used occasionally to go up there to get it and to take it into her room. She kept a great deal in the guest room drawers.

— Lizzie Andrew Borden

I was always the child who wore her emotions on her sleeve.

— Marcia Gay Harden

I remember watching 'The Carol Burnett Show' with my parents as a kid. All those weird outfits she wore, like turtlenecks and long skirts, really stayed in my head.

— Chris Benz

She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.

— Arthur Baer

I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I was dressed for an awards show.

— Lauryn Hill

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I used to paint our toenails hardened. Our favorite videos gathered dust. Her small apron was in a box in the attic. Her shoes - the sparkly ones, the leopard rain boots, the ballet slippers - stood in a corner.

— Ann Hood

My mother did not like children.

— Karl Lagerfeld