Quote by Alexander McCall Smith Download Open image ““was particularly hard for women now, when there were so many children left without”” — Alexander McCall Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“There were still children in the world, and while there were children, men and women would not abandon the struggle to make safe homes… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“All too often, those of us who choose to remain childless are accused of being somehow unwomanly or unnatural or selfish, but history teaches… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Now I understand why women want to have children - it's simply the urge to create happiness for yourself, somehow to fill the oppressive,… — Nina Lugovskaya Copy Share Image
“The world is full of women who have children, and women who don’t, but there is also a silent band of women who almost… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
“women had been sent back home, to manufacture male babies and avoid waste in household expenditures.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Children, from what I had seen, were too often the fruit of men’s evil to women. And too often, instead of hating the men… — Lake Union Publishing Copy Share Image
“Some of the mothers looked overwhelmed - they were no longer accustomed to supervising their own kids in a normal, day-to-day way.” — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we're supposed to build a career, build a home, be the supermum that… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“There would be no children in the world if men had to bring them into it.” — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“old-fashioned, gentle Scottish physician, unmoved by the considerations of profit and personal gain that could so disfigure medicine. That doctors should consider themselves businessmen… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“She had not made a lot of money, but she had not made a loss, and she had been happy and entertained. That counted… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“To use strong language, she thought, was a sign of bad temper and lack of concern for others. Such people were not clever or… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Men are very sensitive, Mma Makutsi. You would not always think it to look at them, but they are. They do not like you… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“He is a good man, but even a good man can fall for a glamorous woman. That is well known.” “That is very well… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“And then the second thing you have to do is go and see your son. That is a duty of love, Andrew. It's as… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Because laughs never die away entirely,” said Jamie. “At least, if you believe in Marconi.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“The trouble with having a conscience, she said to herself, is that it never sleeps.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“And if there's bad behaviour," Mma Potokwane went on. "If there's bad behaviour, the quickest way of stopping it is to give more love.… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Has he not got a wife back wherever he comes from? Is there no wife to say, ‘You must not go off and visit… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
