There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
—Benjamin Spock
Topics: Children
A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
—Benjamin Spock
Topics: Satisfaction
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
—Benjamin Spock
Topics: Happiness
I would say that the surest measure of a man’s or a woman’s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
—Benjamin Spock
Topics: Harmony, Maturity
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
—Benjamin Spock
Topics: Intuition, Trust, Knowledge, Parenting
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
—Benjamin Spock
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
—Benjamin Spock
Topics: Parents
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
—Benjamin Spock
Topics: Children, Parenting
The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.
—Benjamin Spock
Topics: Parenting
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- Gore Vidal American Novelist
- Kurt Vonnegut American Novelist
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