Clementine Quotes

“The sad truth was that Clementine found his dependency draining; like a child, he was petulant, moody and demanding.”
― Sonia Purnell, Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill

“Encouraged by her headmistress Beatrice Harris, whose embrace of feminine independence and suffragist views would have an enduring influence on Clementine, she was secretly nursing dreams of academia.”
― Sonia Purnell, Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill

“What a comfort & pleasure it was to me to meet a girl with so much intellectual quality & such strong reserves of noble sentiment,” he wrote, adding that he hoped they would lay the foundations of a “frank & clear-eyed friendship” with “many serious feelings of respect.”
― Sonia Purnell, Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill

“Clementine was welcomed back to her old school by the headmistress, Beatrice Harris, who had imbued her with ideas of female independence. Clementine never forgot her encouragement and example.”
― Sonia Purnell, Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill

“Her semi-exclusion was the consequence of Eleanor’s being “too independent, too strong, ethically too unrelenting to provide him with the kind of relaxed, unjudging company he wanted.”
― Sonia Purnell, Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill

“The more independent Sarah had inherited some of her father’s toughness and seemed better able to cope with being a Churchill. Funny, beautiful and at ease with the rich and famous around her.”
― Sonia Purnell, Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill

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― Sonia Purnell, Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill

“Gratitude belongs to history & not to politics,”
― Sonia Purnell, Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill

“Society ladies even wore bracelets with swastika charms in tribute to the führer. Many admired how Hitler was putting a muscular pride back into a defeated country, creating a power that, in acting as a bulwark against the Communist hordes to the east, deserved to be hailed as Europe’s savior. The”
― Sonia Purnell, Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill

“His brief, almost nonchalant statement about the government’s “somewhat difficult position” prompted such bedlam in the House of Commons that two distraught MPs actually vomited.”
― Sonia Purnell, Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill