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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.

Queen Victoria

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

Goodness Hate Love Peace Quiet Woman
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
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Important Myself Thinking
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.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Anger Right Women
We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Failure Learning Motivational Success
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Calm Event Myself Peace
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Artist Danger Myself
Everybody grows but me.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Growth Myself One Liner
[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Sex Woman
He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Myself Politics Talk
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
I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Feeling Girl Marriage Women
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
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
Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Marriage Oneself
Just close your eyes—and think of England.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Eyes Thinking Yourself

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