Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
QUEEN VICTORIABeing pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment – their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent.
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The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of ‘Women’s Rights’. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
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Were women to “unsex” themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.
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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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When I think of a merry, happy, and free young girl – and look at the ailing aching state a young wife is generally doomed to – which you can’t deny is the penalty of marriage.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice.
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