Accustomed Quote by Harriet Ann Jacobs

Now, I was one of those kids who grew up privy to both his parents' secrets, who acted as the intermediary between them and…

— Tom Junod

After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to…

— Margaret Cavendish

I used to take the children to work with me.

— June Brown

So much were we together that Nanny became almost a part of me. Consequently, it was my occasional encounters with my parents that stand…

— Christopher Robin Milne

My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old.

— Robert Mondavi

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family.

— Stephen Mangan

“Dorothea, with all her eagerness to know the truths of life, retained very childlike ideas about marriage. She felt sure that she would have…

— George Eliot

My mother, Anne, was a cleaner and a shopkeeper. Out of economic necessity she had to hold down two jobs and she would take…

— Robson Green

I grew up in a loving household.

— Amir Khan

Of course, I also gave him the ineffable pleasures of pipe smoking. And no children, because when this character was created I did not…

— Georges Simenon