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.
QUEEN VICTORIANothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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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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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
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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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Everybody grows but me.
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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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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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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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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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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.
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