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I wanted my children to be able to see me play at the World Cup.
With children, I feel so safe in my predictable world. They will never leave me.
Eventually, I'll go back to acting, but for right now, my children are the most important thing in the world to me.
I've had three young children close to me - my nephew, niece and my god-daughter - born into the world needing life-saving machines to help them survive.
I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.
My children have a world of opportunities that were not available to me. My kids have no idea about going without - there's no desire or need they have that hasn't been fulfilled, which is a blessing.
After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
I had been taught that if I cried, to be quiet about it, so whereas I never howled, the least thing made me cry both at school and at home. Crying tends to separate a child from other children, for even children dislike a cry baby, and I had no friends in the world.