#th

Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#beyond #certainly #children #comprehension #emotional

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#convinced #despair #down #everything #hope

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#capable #driver #given #i #i think

Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there's no doubt about that. We just don't like to think about it. Certainly the men don't like to think about it. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#certainly #complicated #doubt #infinitely #just

I don't need faith. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#i #need

Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#childhood #goes #something #tricky #usually

I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#books #childhood #children #exposed #i

I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#again #believe #brother #expect #fully

I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#big #brave #carry #emily #everywhere

I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#being #child #creature #escape #i