We will not have failure - only success and new learning.
Queen VictoriaRead
Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote highlights the challenges women face in raising children while emphasizing the importance of nurturing them to be responsible members of society.
Queen Victoria reflects on the significant burden and responsibility placed on women to raise children, suggesting that it is often overlooked by men. She acknowledges the divine will in having large families but insists that it is the duty of mothers to guide their children toward becoming productive and moral individuals in society.
Themes
MotherhoodResponsibilityChildrenSocietyFamily
In practice
Example use cases
In a discussion about parenting challenges, this quote can be used to emphasize the dedication required in motherhood.
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All quotes →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.
Queen VictoriaRead
Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.
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Nothing will turn a man's home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
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There is, however, another subject on which the Queen feels most strongly, and that is this horrible, brutalizing, un-Christian-like vivisection…It must really not be permitted. It is a disgrace to a civilized country.
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