Children Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

“Never mind that it was not what she wanted. Never mind that there was so much left to see and learn and do. She’d…

— Renee Ahdieh

“she wondered what it was like to know that you were to be married, that you would have a home, an income, that you…

— Jo Baker

“As I’d worked at my job and traveled and read and lived my life, I’d also decided that a woman is meant to be…

— Anu Partanen

“No one had asked her to marry him, nor was there someone she wished to wed. Not that she did not enjoy the company…

— Janet Wallach

“She’d wanted love, a husband and children, a home filled with laughter and security, the things she’d never had as a child. She’d stopped…

— Linda Howard

“She fought for the right to love, men and women, rejecting the conventions that marriage demands exclusive love, and that women should love only…

— Nigel Nicolson

“She was old to know that marriages were like children. They had lives of their own and didn't necessarily act the way you thought…

— Rebecca Flowers

“But she had recently come to think that in such unhappy times--when the odds were so high against personal happiness--to find love was miraculous,…

— Bernard Malamud

“marriage had always been her object; it was the only provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness,…

— Jane Austen

“It had been said that the art of successful marriage lay in choosing the person you could live with rather than the person you…

— Elizabeth Palmer

“The burning ambition of my life was to marry her one day. The consuming worry of my life was to whether she would agree.”

— Vikas Swarup

“Did she ever think of that, that things experienced in ways different from hers were equally valuable? That the way that he chose to…

— Elizabeth Berg