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"The joy is still there when I see Sean.
He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his
bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps,
and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him
to the ocean. I'm so proud of all his things. But he is my
biggest pride."
"If [Sean] doesn't see me a few days or if I'm really,
really busy, and I just sort of get a glimpse of him, or
if I'm feeling depressed without him even seeing me, he sort
of picks up on it. And he starts getting that way. So I can
no longer afford to have artistic depressions. If I start
wallowing in a depression, he'll start coming down with stuff,
so I'm sort of obligated to keep up. And sometimes I can't,
because something will make me depressed and sure as hell
he'll get a cold or trap his finger in a door or something,
and so now I have sort of more reason to stay healthy or
bright..."
"I've been baking bread and looking after the baby...
Everyone else who has asked me that question over the last
few years says. 'But what else have you been doing?' To which
I say, 'Are you kidding?' Because bread and babies, as every
housewife knows, is a full-time job. After I made the loaves
[of bread,] I felt like I had conquered something. But as
I watched the bread being eaten, I thought, Well, Jesus,
don't I get a gold record or knighted or nothing?"
"Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main
thing."
John Lennon talking about his first son, Julian
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can
face the responsibility of bringing them up."
"You can't cheat kids. If you cheat them when they're
children they'll make you pay when they're sixteen or seventeen
by revolting against you or hating you or all those so-called
teenage problems. I think that's finally when they're old
enough to stand up to you and say, 'What a hypocrite you've
been all this time. You've never given me what I really wanted,
which is you."
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