I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting. Queen Victoria More Quotes by Queen Victoria More Quotes From Queen Victoria Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife. Queen Victoria hazards wife pregnancy 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 growing-up disappointment children We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved so much was there. The pure, tender, loving spirit which loved us so tenderly, is above us - loving us, praying for us, and free from all suffering and woe - yes, that is a comfort, and that first birthday in another world must have been a far brighter one than any in this poor world below! Queen Victoria suffering feet love Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am. Queen Victoria blessed 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 dumb character civilization 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 marriage girl thinking Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time. Queen Victoria goes-on hot water 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 marriage happiness thinking [On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice. Queen Victoria alcohol practice drinking 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 queens practice animal Oh! If those selfish men, who are the cause of all one's misery, only knew what their poor slaves go through! What suffering, what humiliation to the delicate feelings of a poor woman, above all a young one, especially with those nasty doctors. Queen Victoria doctors selfish men [On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that. Queen Victoria sex [To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle! Queen Victoria speaking-up bishops queens 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 royalty good-woman reign A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one. Queen Victoria amusement marriage love 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 wicked women thinking Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society. Queen Victoria women children thinking I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all. Queen Victoria women girl feels I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous. Queen Victoria seductive artist littles Everybody grows but me. Queen Victoria grows
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