Children Quote by J.P. Donleavy

“No one had asked her to marry him, nor was there someone she wished to wed. Not that she did not enjoy the company…

— Janet Wallach

“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

“It was easy to be nice to an attractive woman over a dinner table. The despair came later, with children and tiredness and the…

— Nick Hornby

“he'd told her that young girls were always happiest with older men. Innocence and experience make for a perfect marriage.”

— George R.R. Martin

“She was emotionally retarded having no sense of humour, cold and no people skills. She was like her mother was obsessed by appearances and…

— Annette J Dunlea

“Sometimes she despaired at other women - their feebleness, their triviality, the nonsense they absorbed. So many were like little doe-eyed deer waiting to…

— Dave Franklin

“How easy it was, she thought unhappily as she did it, for men and women. They could stand in a street and argue, flirt…

— Sarah Waters

“It's as if she understood completely the condition of loneliness and how it undermines us all, forcing us to make choices that we know…

— John Boyne

“though the matter of getting on well with young men in no circumstances presented serious difficulty to her.”

— Anthony Powell

“She had effaced herself, when he first knew her; she had made herself small, pretending there was less of her than there really was.…

— Henry James

“Throughout her life, she behaved as if she had never heard anyone suggest that a woman couldn't do entirely as she pleased.”

— Francine Prose

“It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life--be she a genteel lady or a serving girl--might find a happier home…

— Tessa Dare