Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers.

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.

“It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.”

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.

We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Nothing in the world is quite so irritating as dealing with mutinous children.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Children today know more about sex than I or my father did.

Camille and I do have many things in common besides our both being afraid of the children.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are therir own.