Children Quote by Anthony Trollope

“every vice might be forgiven in a man and in a son, though every virtue was expected from a woman, and especially from a…

— Anthony Trollope

“Peace…Henrietta was not quite sure what it was but she knew it was very important. If one wanted it, Grandfather had told her once,…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“Henrietta, at heart a contemplative person, enjoyed alarums and excursions for a short while only. For her a background of quiet was essential to…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“Ah, Jo, instead of wishing that, thank God that 'Father and Mother were particular', and pity from your heart those who have no such…

— Louisa May Alcott

“But the mother was especially admirable and worthy of honorable remembrance, for she watched the death of seven sons in the course of a…

— 2 Maccabees 7 20

“I knew before marriage to Henrietta Collyer that she and I should never have come together, but a young man’s sense of honor, so…

— Christina Stead

“When she was not persuading him that he was, like all men without a woman in their lives, utterly helpless, she indulged in an…

— Alanna Knight

“Indeed, she had started to wonder if her blessings might be in her daughters and their progeny rather than in her sons. There was…

— Elizabeth Chadwick

“It was Mom whom I could not live without. Fathers, I was convinced, could not replicate the emotional security and nurturing that mothers provided.”

— Leslie Gilbert-Lurie

“supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation in life, the character of her father and mother, her own person and disposition, were…

— Jane Austen

“Her husband and her children did not consider her beyond criticism. She belonged to them; whatever she did affected them; their pride, their good…

— Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

“There was no one for him to tell, talk to about it, about his fear and suspicion, He trusted no man nor woman, who…

— William Faulkner