Benjamin Spock


When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

Benjamin Spock


What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

Benjamin Spock


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


What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

Benjamin Spock


I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.

Benjamin Spock


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.

Benjamin Spock


Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

Benjamin Spock


Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.

Benjamin Spock


Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

Benjamin Spock

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