Children Quote by Pat Nixon

[When asked if her husband was still living:] It's a matter of opinion.

— Hermione Gingold

[On her father's death:] I didn't know his leaving would hurt so much.

— Erma Bombeck

[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!

— Elizabeth I

[She] always knew he was a fiction but believed in him anyway.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know…

— Madame de Stael

[When asked if she had ever considered divorcing Sir Lewis Casson:] Divorce? Never. But murder often!

— Sybil Thorndike

“Reader, I'd marry her.”

— Steven Moore

Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?

— Ross Perot

“Tevis being childless meant you felt a little sorry for her, and a bit jealous. Probably the same way she felt about you.”

— Monica Ali

“But in the end I'd marry her to the one she herself loved. To a father, the man his daughter falls in love with…

— Fyodor Dostoevksy

“Some of my best friends are women,' I snapped, 'though I certainly wouldn't want my daughter to marry one of them.”

— Kyril Bonfiglioli

“She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she now therefore nothing to do but to…

— Jane Austen