Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large don't try to trip you up... they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do... if they've loved a story they love to know how it started.
Animals are sentient intelligent perceptive funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet at the end of a long weekend with them the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!
'Married with Children' was racy. It was sexist. It was a lot of things but mostly it was funny.
My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects rather an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
As I get older all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.
All my children inherited perfect pitch.
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.
You see much more of your children once they leave home.
I like children - fried.
A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.
Everybody knows how to raise children except the people who have them.
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?
People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book' but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me because in my view fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.
A growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that career can wait and the delicious early years of their children's lives can't.
I used to think that if I had success I would have freedom. But I have less freedom now than I've ever had. And what gives me satisfaction is not the jewelry and not the cars. What gives me satisfaction is doing things for others like children.
I always wanted to make a children's album because you have the freedom to explore so many wonderful topics and sounds.
Another hero was Tom Swift in the books. What he stood for the freedom the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.
When we through our educational culture through the media through the entertainment culture give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions we are telling them in effect that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.
But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home with a husband and with children and with large freedom pecuniary freedom personal freedom and the right to vote.
The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children one that now begins before birth.