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I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations.

Queen Victoria

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Defeat Existence Inspirational Leadership Life Win
Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Pregnant Wife
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.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Girl Marriage Thinking Wife Young
He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Myself Politics Talk
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 VICTORIA

Goodness Woman
She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Beautiful Dog
The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Animal Humanity Practice
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Important Myself Thinking
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Doubt Happiness Marriage Poor Thinking
Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Blessing Grateful Myself Woman
Just close your eyes—and think of England.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Eyes Thinking Yourself
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.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Children Disappointment Grow Up Parents
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 VICTORIA

Equality Hate Man Protection Sex Woman
Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Marriage Oneself
That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
QUEEN VICTORIA

Book Religious
We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Destiny Men Suffering

I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations.

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