Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
QUEEN VICTORIAWere 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.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
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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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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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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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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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Everybody grows but me.
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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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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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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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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!
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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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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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We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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