16 Quotes by Astrid Lindgren
Astrid Lindgren was a Swedish author who is best known for her children’s books, including the beloved “Pippi Longstocking” series. Lindgren’s books have been translated into over 100 languages and have sold millions of copies around the world. Her stories often feature strong, independent female characters who challenge traditional gender roles and societal norms. Lindgren was also an advocate for children’s rights and was involved in several humanitarian causes throughout her life. Her legacy continues to inspire readers of all ages and her books remain popular to this day. (Bio)
Astrid Lindgren Quotes
Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself. (Meaning)
I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.
Don’t let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.
Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination. (Meaning)
What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today.
There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it.
A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.
I don’t mind dying, I’ll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.
If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.
I don’t want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.
You understand Teacher, don’t you, that when you have a mother who’s an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then you don’t know just how to behave in school with all the apples and ibexes.
And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me.
But Nightshirts aren’t dangerous,” Pippi assured her. “They don’t bite anybody except in self defense.
I have noticed several times that people don’t think I know how to behave even when I’m trying as hard as I can.
If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied.
I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.
― Astrid Lindgren Quotes
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