It is a pity but seems true, that bearing children reduces women to extremes of potential nobility or potential baseness in anything like a crisis. But robs them of the impulse to behave with reason and decency. I suppose a birth is such a shock to the nerves that one never gets over it.


The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner (1995)

Sylvia Townsend Warner Quotes

It is a pity but seems true, that bearing children reduces women to extremes of potential nobility or potential baseness in anything like a crisis....

It is a pity but seems true, that bearing children reduces women to extremes of potential nobility or potential baseness in anything like a crisis....

It is a pity but seems true, that bearing children reduces women to extremes of potential nobility or potential baseness in anything like a crisis....

It is a pity but seems true, that bearing children reduces women to extremes of potential nobility or potential baseness in anything like a crisis....