7 Quotes by Joan Didion about children




  • Author Joan Didion
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    I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.

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    Becoming a parent is actually terrifying. A lot of people have that feeling about their dogs. And if you're the kind of person who's going to have that feeling about a dog you're definitely going to have that about a child.

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    I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. I think biographies are very urgent to children.

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    When I began writing these pages I believed their subject to be children, the ones we have and the ones we wish we had, the ways in which we depend on our children to depend on us, the ways in which we encourage them to remain children, the ways in which they remain more unknown to us than they do to their more casual acquaintances; the ways in which we remain equally opaque to them.

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