queen victoria

“ 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 cant deny is the penalty of marriage. ”

“ Were women to ”

“ We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist. ”

“ Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous. ”

“ Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can. ”

“ Bring me a cup of tea and the 'Times. ”

“ The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live on (and I will do nothing to make me worse than I am), it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children -- for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him -- and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish. ”

“ He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting. ”

“ I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness. ”

“ Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am. ”