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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

No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God’s creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Character Charity Civilization God
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.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Myself Pregnant Thinking
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.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Courage Man Thinking Women
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Defeat Existence Inspirational Leadership Life Win
I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Feeling Girl Marriage Women
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
An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Beautiful Children Ugly
That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
QUEEN VICTORIA

Book Religious
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
Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Artist Class Danger
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
Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Marriage Oneself
[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Sex Woman
Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Relationship Time
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!
QUEEN VICTORIA

Husband Poor Soul World Worth

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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