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01Undated

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Benjamin Spock / quote

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02Undated

In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

Benjamin Spock / quote

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03Undated

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.

Benjamin Spock / quote

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04Undated

There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age.

Benjamin Spock / quote

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05Undated

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

Benjamin Spock / quote

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06Undated

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

Benjamin Spock / quote

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07Undated

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.

Benjamin Spock / quote

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08Undated

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

Benjamin Spock / quote

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09Undated

People have criticized me for seeming to step out of my professional role to become undignifiedly political. I'd say it was belated realization that day care, good schools, health insurance, and nuclear disarmament are even more important aspects of pediatrics than measles vaccine or vitamin D.

Benjamin Spock / quote

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10Undated

There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age.

Benjamin Spock / quote

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11Undated

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

Benjamin Spock / quote

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