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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

D. H. Lawrence
Children, Freedom, Fighting
D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.458, ReadHowYouWant.com

How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.

D. H. Lawrence
Children, Firsts, Educate
D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.121, Cambridge University Press

Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.

D. H. Lawrence
Children, Wind, Sea
D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.52, Cambridge University Press

But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.

D. H. Lawrence
Children, Hate, Men
D. H. Lawrence (1994). “D.H. Lawrence: Selected Works”, Gramercy

That she bear children is not a woman's significance. But that she bear herself, that is her supreme and risky fate.

D. H. Lawrence
Children, Fate, Bears
D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.7681, Delphi Classics

A man was like a child with his appetites. A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child he would probably turn nasty and flounce away and spoil what was a very pleasant connection.

D. H. Lawrence
Children, Men, Yield
D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child.... Leave his sensibilities, his emotions, his spirit, and his mind severely alone. There is the devil in mothers, that they must provoke personalresponse from their infants.

D. H. Lawrence
Education, Mother, Children
D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.121, Cambridge University Press

[Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other men. But his greatest and final relation is with the sun.

D. H. Lawrence
Children, Flower, Men
D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.374, Cambridge University Press

Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.

D. H. Lawrence
Children, Giving Up, And Love

Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.

D. H. Lawrence
Music, Mother, Children
D.H. Lawrence (1961). “Selected Poems”

I don't like your miserable lonely single front name. It is so limited, so meager; it has no versatility; it is weighted down with the sense of responsibility; it is worn threadbare with much use; it is as bad as having only one jacket and one hat; it is like having only one relation, one blood relation, in the world. Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.

D. H. Lawrence
Lonely, Children, Responsibility

It is marriage, perhaps, which had given man the best of his freedom, given him his little kingdom of his own within the big kingdom of the state.... It is a true freedom because it is a true fulfilment, for man, woman and children. Do we then want to break marriage? If we do break it, it means we all fall to a far greater extent under the direct sway of the State.

D. H. Lawrence
Children, Fall, Mean

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