Sylvia Townsend Warner Quote

I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.


The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner (1995)


I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.

I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.

I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.

I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.