"I don’t think children’s inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play."
― Beverly Cleary
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Parenting
― Beverly Cleary
More From Beverly Cleary
- "When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so."
- "In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!"
- "I don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there."
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- "Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don’t want to go to PTA meetings."― Stevie Nicks
- "Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly."― Tom Clancy
- "Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own."― Doug Larson