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Wars are fought by children. Conceived by their mad demonic elders, and fought by boys.

Wars are fought by children. Conceived by their mad demonic elders, and fought by boys.

Penelope Lively
Children, War, Boys
1987 Moon Tiger, ch.8.

But who knows their own child? You know bits - certain predictable reactions, a handful of familiar qualities. The rest is impenetrable. And quite right too. You give birth to them. You do not design them.

Penelope Lively
Children, Giving, Design

I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.

Penelope Lively
Children, Thinking, Might
"'I'm not a historian but I can get obsessively interested in the past'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2001.

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