„When Margaret grows up she will have a daughter, who is to be Peter’s mother in turn; and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.“

— J. M. Barrie

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„I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.“
— Jodi Picoult
„They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.“
— Virginia Woolf
„I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.“
— Roald Dahl
„Your culture is different to ours. We're not ready for all this in Brazil because no father would ever take pride in having a gay son. Pride? Happiness? Celebrating if his son turns out gay? No way. Look, you have to have some sort of moral compass bearing in your life. They want to reach our children in order to turn the children into gay adults to satisfy their sexuality in the future. So these are the fundamentalist homosexual groups that are trying to take over society.“
— Jair Bolsonaro
„Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa.“
— J. M. Barrie
„Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter.“
— C.G. Jung