Children Quote by Helen Rappaport

“In Rome, a woman’s power, however circumspectly exercised, arouses revulsion. Every death in my family circle has been laid at my door.”

— Phyllis T. Smith

“She felt like a child clad in the armour of an adult. She was perplexed at the respect she received from other adults; she…

— Jerold J. Kreisman

“The Empress acknowledges our nurturing side, the need for tact and careful consideration about the consequences of our attitudes.”

— Rob Parnell

“but yet it appeared to her so natural, so inevitable to strive against an inclination of that sort unrequited, that she could not comprehend…

— Jane Austen

“You are a daughter of God, a holy princess, a woman loved beyond all you can imagine. No matter what.”

— Holley Gerth

“Like the discovery of most things - love and religion especially - she maintained the child's arrogant wonder than no one had understood it…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Indeed, she had started to wonder if her blessings might be in her daughters and their progeny rather than in her sons. There was…

— Elizabeth Chadwick

“From one point of view it is an appeal to future ages from Florentine injustice and ingratitude; from another, it is a long and…

— Dante Alighieri

“The mother smiled at his earnestness - smiled without the least misgiving; for, to her apprehension, the youth was still a boy, to wonder…

— E.D.E.N. Southworth

“What a burden it is to have an intelligent daughter. It goes against nature for wit to be bound up in so much beauty.”

— Anthony Ryan

“Her son would be incomparably handsome, good and powerful. He would be the expected Messiah; it is fortunate for humanity that all mothers have…

— Émile Zola

“…but the truly frightening thing was to learn that his mother was no stronger than he was, that the blows of the world hurt…

— Paul Auster