I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.
QUEEN VICTORIAJust close your eyes—and think of England.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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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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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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
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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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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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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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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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Everybody grows but me.
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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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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His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!
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