Aunt Quote by Christina Stead Download Open image “It is most oppressive to be an aunt.” — Christina Stead ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aunt
“Aunts are to be a pattern and example to all aunts; to be a delight to boys (and girls) and a comfort to their… — Dave Isay Copy Share Image
My brother has two children now, so I've been playing aunt Renee. They're two and four. It's chaos. Moms out there, kudos to you.… — Renee Zellweger Copy Share Image
An aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being an aunty is the best - exactly what I wanted from this - someone to have ownership over but no obligation to take… — Rose Matafeo Copy Share Image
I would rather be the good aunt who never says anything bad and lets the parents discipline the child. — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
In fact, the family as an institution is both oppressive and protective and, depending on the issue, is experienced sometimes one way, sometimes the… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
“Always wise aunts come in many guises. There are maiden aunts, dowager aunts, and that delightful creature, the eccentric aunt. I fear I fall… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time,… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be the aunt where you come over and can't sit on the sofa. — Tamron Hall Copy Share Image
“It is splendid—to be—loved! If we only—can—live up—to the thoughts—of us—by them—that love us!” — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“I’m afraid to write to your father: he criticizes my spelling,” sneered Henny. “And it appears I know nothing about geography. Hang his stuck-up… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“you do not know what she did not only to me but to the little children. She has tortured them, turned them against me,… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“Hair under the arms, for example, he said, should never be removed, for nature had put it there, and evidently it had some use.… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal. — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“A month before our marriage, I knew it would be a well-nigh hopeless union, yet so great is a young man’s idea of what… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“For a moment, after years of scamping, she felt the dread power of wifehood; they were locked in each other’s grasp till the end—the… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
Your aunt and uncle will be proud, though, won't they?" said Hermione as they got off the train and joined the crowd thronging toward… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was painfully shy, so my aunt suggested to my mum that me and my brother go to Stage 84, a performing arts school… — Christian Cooke Copy Share Image
I'll just do a round around of the house and make sure the rest of the family are fast asleep. We don't want that… — Kerstin Gier Copy Share Image
In the summer of 1964, my sister and I went to South Ballston, Virginia, to stay with my aunt and her kids. They passed… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the woman I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table,… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
This kind of thing always amazed Ginny--people who just walked away from institutions. People who left school when they didn't see the point. Aunt… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
my sweet old etcetera aunt lucy during the recent war could and what is more did tell you just what everybody was fighting for,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My aunt put my cousins into a children's modelling agency, then my mum did it with us. Me and my sister got a few… — Sullivan Stapleton Copy Share Image
Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to. — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
