Young Mrs. Savage Quotes

“She reflected - not for the first time by any means- that children's questions are calculated to show up the ignorance of their elders to a positively alarming extent. You thought you knew, but when you started to explain and to deal with searching inquiries as to why and how, you found yourself stumped.”
― D.E. Stevenson, Young Mrs. Savage

“she would not have been human if she had not had moments of regret, moments of longing for the old days when she had been herself (not the mother of four children, but belonging to herself alone and complete in herself)”
― D.E. Stevenson, Young Mrs. Savage

“No, they aren’t babies, they’re people . . . and I don’t worry too much. It’s my job to worry about them. They’re my responsibility and nobody else’s.”
― D.E. Stevenson, Young Mrs. Savage

“The fear was father to the thought,”
― D.E. Stevenson, Young Mrs. Savage

“I don’t worry about household chores and they always seem to get done sooner or later”
― D.E. Stevenson, Young Mrs. Savage

“he thought she had handled the matter of the shilling in the wrong way. “Why didn’t you make them share?” asked Dan, after a moment’s silence. “They wanted justice, Dan.” “It’s nice to share.” “Yes, if you want to. Sharing is no good unless you do it willingly. That’s why communism doesn’t work—because it isn’t true communism. True communism is sharing gladly what you’ve got with your neighbour. It isn’t taking his possessions, it’s giving yours.”
― D.E. Stevenson, Young Mrs. Savage