
As quoted in M. Leonard, The Chaperon and Housemother, Builders of Youth (1947), p. 51
Source: The Small House at Allington (1864), Ch. 3
As quoted in M. Leonard, The Chaperon and Housemother, Builders of Youth (1947), p. 51
“She may very well pass for forty three
In the dusk with the light behind her.”
Trial by Jury (1875)
“When a woman reaches forty, she must wait twenty years for her husband to catch up.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage
In the title story Postcards from Surfers.
Garner describing her mother.
Postcards from Surfers (1985)
“A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth!”
Une femme de quarante ans n'est plus quelque chose que pour les hommes qui l'ont aimée dans sa jeunesse!
Source: La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma) (1839), Ch. 23
Source: Northanger Abbey: a play in two acts, based upon the novel
Quoted in Käthe Kollwitz: Woman and Artist (1976) by Martha Kearns The Feminist Press, ISBN 0-912-67015-0, p. 82.
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