Children Quote by Elizabeth Gaskell

“Would Edith ever be like that, a mere custodian of the past? If she did, he thought, she would be false to the very…

— Ernest Poole

A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman…

— Charles Dickens

Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.

— Dorothy Parker

“...the prospect of soon losing her companion seemed to give force to every sweet quality and charm which Edith possessed.”

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“Each woman's story, Edith's especially but Rose's too, is a kind of English story told over and over in fiction and film but rarely…

— Christopher Hilliard

“Edith had danced herself into that tired, dreamy state habitual only with débutantes, a state equivalent to the glow of a noble soul after…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Edith who had still not fully recovered from the debauchery at the Hayeses' had glaced at the letter before dinner but she apparently lacked…

— Anna Godbersen

“Edith stared at the ceiling, contemplating the oddness of life. Here she was with this man, whom she hardly knew when she really thought…

— Julian Fellowes

I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too upsetting for me to write about them.…

— Otto Frank

“In spite of her small vanities, Margaret had a sweet and pious nature, which unconsciously influenced her sisters, especially Jo, who loved her very…

— Louisa May Alcott

“She stood in the mirror portrait very near Margaret, close next to her, good as a mother or a friend.”

— Ida Hattemer-Higgins

“had my share of beauty, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now. When a woman has five grown-up daughters,”

— Jane Austen