Father mother Quote by Jane Austen

“She was simple, not being able to adorn herself, but she was unhappy, as one out of her class; for women belong to no…

— Guy de Maupassant

“The intensity of her religious disposition, the coercion it exercised over her life, was but one aspect of a nature altogether ardent, theoretic, and…

— George Eliot

“She was the youngest of the two daughters of a most affectionate, indulgent father; and had, in consequence of her sister's marriage, been mistress…

— Jane Austen

“She was a dedicated churchgoer, devoted do-gooder, and throbbing artery of village gossip. She sharpened her tongue on the loose lives of others and…

— Christina McKenna

“When our mother is seen only as the one-dimensional Mary of modern times, instead of the great dual force of life and death, She…

— Ana Castillo

“She was young, a Stranger to the World, and consequently to the Dangers of it; and having no Body in Town, at that Time,…

— Eliza Haywood

“Her failure to demand her needs, losing all of her years, sacrificing herself on the altar of motherhood to a son who saved himself…

— Cherise Wolas

“If she had been born a hundred years later, she would very likely have been encouraged to be angry, told she had a right…

— Elisabeth Elliot

“The heroine of my writings is She, whom I love with all the forces of my being, She who always was, is and will…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Her husband and her children did not consider her beyond criticism. She belonged to them; whatever she did affected them; their pride, their good…

— Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

“had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation in life, the character of…

— Jane Austen

“Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent…

— Virginia Woolf