Lady Violet Holds a Baby Quotes

“A handsome young son was not a prize to be exhibited at the race meets, or a consolation for a lost brother. A young girl awkwardly approaching womanhood was not a social nuisance to be endured. She was a very young lady, thorns and all, and deserving of utmost protection and respect.”
― Grace Burrowes, Lady Violet Holds a Baby

“Children were not chattel any more than wives were chattel, regardless of whatever imbecilic pronouncements the law made to the contrary.”
― Grace Burrowes, Lady Violet Holds a Baby

“I am not radical, but how much exploitation are the common folk to put up with in the name of thwarting revolution while you, my father, and his kind raise rents, raise food prices, and drop wages in the manufactories? People are forced from their villages by enclosures and have nowhere to live in the cities, so we arrest them for vagrancy. We toss them into the poorhouses, where disease is certain to kill them off, and yet, we call ourselves a Christian nation.”
― Grace Burrowes, Lady Violet Holds a Baby

“I am a gentleman; therefore, when I err, I take responsibility, apologize, and effect reparation for the wrong I have done.”
― Grace Burrowes, Lady Violet Holds a Baby

“was reminded of Annabelle’s observation that marriage was work. I hadn’t understood that as a bride.”
― Grace Burrowes, Lady Violet Holds a Baby

“wives were lonely, and widows were lonely, and young girls were frequently made to feel left out and useless, what did a woman’s sojourn on earth amount to?”
― Grace Burrowes, Lady Violet Holds a Baby

“Her problem, I surmised, had been loneliness. Many wives dealt with the challenges of parenting, housekeeping, and socializing, but for much of the year, Mama had faced those challenges alone. Then Papa would come home, upsetting established routines, countermanding Mama’s orders, and expecting to be obeyed in all things by a woman who’d managed his estate and household for him without benefit of a salary.”
― Grace Burrowes, Lady Violet Holds a Baby

“Dr. Johnson meant the sort of patriotism that requires loud displays and marching about armed on the village green, not the sort of patriotism you, Felix, and Dunkeld showed in Spain.”
― Grace Burrowes, Lady Violet Holds a Baby

“What did your Dr. Johnson say?” St. Sevier murmured. “‘Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”
― Grace Burrowes, Lady Violet Holds a Baby

“shrewish was one of many pejoratives for which no exact male counterpart had been invented—yet.”
― Grace Burrowes, Lady Violet Holds a Baby