Be gentle with the young.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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Lois McMaster Bujold ( boo-ZHOHLD; born November 2, 1949) is an American speculative fiction writer. She has won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record (not counting his Retro Hugos). Bujold is best known for her Vorkosigan Saga, a series of science fiction novels...

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I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence, you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

—Leo J. Burke

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

—Lawana Blackwell

My mother loved children—she would have given anything if I had been one.

Babies are cool, until you've done everything to do with 'em and you get bored. That's why T.V. shows about babies don't last more than a year.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

—Groucho Marx

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