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 VICTORIAWe poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an old, wild, and incomprehensible man of 82, is very great!
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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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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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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.
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
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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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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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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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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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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God’s creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.
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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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