„I shall never marry, Atticus.””Why?””I might have children.“

— Harper Lee

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„Give me four years to teach the children, and the seed I have sown shall never be uprooted.“
— Vladimir Lenin
„I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.“
— Jack Kerouac
„Atticus---"… said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?""I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before & they did it tonight & they'll do it again & when they do it--- seems that only children weep.“
— Harper Lee
„I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as long as we would have expected or hoped. But it is still far better than never having had those children at all.“
— Jodi Picoult