Hard work of little girls

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762

Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how
unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun. -Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook

A child is a curly dimpled lunatic. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him. -Pablo Casals

Look around you. Everywhere. They are there. In every home - lurking in dark corners ... small, bi-pedal entities with almost human brains play their
games in which adults are the pawns. They play and wait for the time when they will take over the world!
-John Blair Moore, Invaders from Home, Piranha Press, 1990, Book 1 of 6.