Edith Wharton Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• I begin to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them - children, duties, visits, bores, relations - the things that protect married people from each other.

  Edith Wharton

  Children, Thinking, Two

  Edith Wharton (1994). “Short Stories”, p.81, Courier Corporation

• I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.

  Edith Wharton

  Lonely, Children, Night

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.136, Xist Publishing

• I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.

  Edith Wharton

  Mother, Children, Book

  Edith Wharton (2016). “A Backward Glance”, p.42, Edith Wharton

• Mothers and daughters are part of each other's consciousness, in different degrees and in a different way, but still with the mutual sense of something which has always been there. A real mother is just a habit of thought to her children.

  Edith Wharton

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2743, Delphi Classics

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