Changing-times Quote by Gabriel Chevallier

“That day, instead, I saw clearly the mothers of the old neighbourhood. They were nervous, they were acquiescent. They were silent, with tight lips…

— Elena Ferrante

“Children left their old parents at home and scattered in all directions in search of money. It was hard on an old woman with…

— Chinua Achebe

“For the girls the regular comings and goings restored their superior sense of self, a superiority they had received intact from Moran and which…

— John McGahern

“The brothers were brought up to be men. The girls had been reared to get married.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“There is a folk-tale about a shoemaker and his wife who were so poor that they had to send their many children out into…

— Gyula Illyes

“They were women then My mama's generation Husky of voice stout of Step With fists as well as Hands How they battered down Doors…

— Alice Walker

“July had come, and haying begun; the little gardens were doing finely and the long summer days were full of pleasant hours. The house…

— Louisa May Alcott

-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.

— Larry McMurtry

“People, her people at least, were always chasing shattered hopes. A father gazing down on dead soil, with a brood of hollow-cheeked children sitting…

— A Cruel Harvest

“Girls had changed. They had liberated themselves from their corsets only to throw themselves at the tyranny of the "diet plan." They were all…

— Kate Morton

“the days of the young, when they gulped the air and lived to see the better world, the grown-up world, when they could not…

— Paullina Simons

“Anne smiled and sighed. The seasons that seemed so long to Baby Rilla were beginning to pass all too quickly for her. Another summer…

— L.M. Montgomery