“I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a ra...” — Beverly Cleary Quote

“I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.”

“I was a librarian.”

“I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.”

“I read my books aloud before they were published.”

“With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.”

“I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.”

“I was in the seventh grade when I first began to identify as trans and express my gender identity as a girl. My social transition began with growing my hair and wearing clothes and makeup that made me feel like Destiny's Fourth Child.”

“I learned that I can't save the world, but I can help a child at a time.”

“No one understands the shift in priorities about having a child in your life... until you have a child in your life.”

“It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.”

“I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'”

“There are so many things we have to overcome in this life with Jesus, His work on the cross. He's paid the ultimate price for us, so I'm proud to be a child of God.”