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Jonathan Franzen Quotes about Children

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Family's the one thing you can't change. You can cover yourself with tattoos. You can get a grapefruit-sized ring going through your earlobe. You can change your name. You can move to a different continent. But you

Family's the one thing you can't change. You can cover yourself with tattoos. You can get a grapefruit-sized ring going through your earlobe. You can change your name. You can move to a different continent. But you cannot change who your parents were, and who your siblings are, and who your children are.

Jonathan Franzen
Tattoo, Children, Sibling

What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.

Jonathan Franzen
Children, Attractive, About Yourself
Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.263, Macmillan

I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man.

Jonathan Franzen
Children, Pregnancy, Men

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