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I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
— Benjamin Spock
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Benjamin Spock
physician, military officer, rower, pedagogue, university teacher, psychiatrist, politician, psychologist, educator
1903 – 1998
Benjamin McLane Spock, widely known as Dr. Spock, was an American pediatrician, Olympian athlete and left-wing political activist. His book Baby and Child Care (1946) is one of the best-selling books of the 20th century, selling 500,000 copies in the six months after its initial publication and 50 million by the time of Spock's death in 1998. The book's premise told mothers, "You know more than you think you do." Dr. Spock was widely regarded as a trusted source for parenting advice in his generation.
All Quotes by Benjamin Spock
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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.
— Benjamin Spock
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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.
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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
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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