Quotes by Jordan, June

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love th >>

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, t >>

All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire ri >>

Quotations about Children

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pam >>

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have not >>

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every stre >>

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June