Skip to content

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.

— Noel Gerson Daughter of Earth and Water (1973)

Another quote →

More quotes by Noel Gerson

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)

All Noel Gerson quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Noel Gerson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.