Children Quote by Christina Stead

“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

“That was during the time of her lost happiness, when his love had built round her a protective wall, which for a brief period…

— Anna Kavan

“She has seen him fight his own brutal nature, and the Earth itself, in order to be the parent she needs. He has helped…

— N.K. Jemisin

“On the whole she found erring children easier to deal with than their frantic parents, confirming her conclusion that marriage did strange things to…

— Miranda Neville

“Her husband, like her children, was a person who often annoyed her but whom she loved very deeply.”

— Coral Lansbury

“On one hand she seems so agile, so athletic, and yet I've seen her appear so awkward that it embarrassed me. She gives the…

— Philip K. Dick

“When she had him along, the world looked different, and she liked the way she saw things she'd never seen before. . . But…

— Ruth Ozeki

“and in that single moment she felt as though she had seen into his soul and the very heart of the the love he…

— catrin collier

“I saw that he was going to marry her, for family, perhaps political reasons; because her rank and connexions suited him; I felt he…

— Charlotte Brontë

“She was the kind of woman who made a sport of finding fault with other people; her favorite target being me. I wasn’t good…

— Clara James

“A thing that had always struck her about the child was that he seemed so collected. She had never seen him cry. And now…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“To this husband of hers she made the last concession of married life, which is more complete, more irrevocable, than the first—she listened to…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald