Phyllis Bottome Quotes about Children

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

Phyllis Bottome

Children, Order, Rope

Phyllis Bottome (1934). “Innocence and experience: stories”

What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?

Phyllis Bottome

Children, Eye, Eyes Of A Child

Phyllis Bottome (1917). “The Derelict: And Also The Liquer Glass, Mademoiselle L'Anglaise, The Awkward Turn, The Syren's Isle, Ironstone, The Pace, Brother Leo”

Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them.

Phyllis Bottome

Children, Thinking, Law

In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include at least a rudimentary grasp of religion, sex, and money. Without a basic knowledge of these three primary facts in a normal human being's life --subjects which stir the emotions, create events and opportunities, and if they do not wholly decide must greatly influence an individual's personality --no human being's education can have a safe foundation.

Phyllis Bottome

Education, Sex, Children

Phyllis Bottome (1948). “Search for a Soul”, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock [1948]

It is you men who make war! ... We, who have children, would never make it! Why should a woman be broken up in pain, to give her child life, only to see him carried away from her, to make food for guns?

Phyllis Bottome

Pain, Children, War

Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.167, Northwestern University Press