Quotes from Daughter of Earth and Water — Noel Gerson
1913–1988 United States
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Marriage was a noble institution, she declared, provided the husband did not take unfair advantage of his superior legal position and the wife did not succumb to the pressures of society and become a nonentity.
Daughter of Earth and Water (1973)
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was destined from her birth, on August 30, 1797, to be different, out of step in both thoughts and feelings with ordinary minds and mundane emotions. The very nature of her unorthodox, controversial parents guaranteed that the child of their union would be dissimilar to anyone else who came into the world at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Daughter of Earth and Water (1973)
Seeing some of the most famous men of the day when they were relaxing over a jar of sack, a bottle of port or an occasional glass of whiskey also gave her an opportunity to observe their idiosyncrasies, and confirmed her belief that only the timid, the insecure and the ignorant conformed to the rules that society made.
Daughter of Earth and Water (1973)