Quote by Mary Wesley
My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20. – Mary Wesley

Other quotes by Mary Wesley

That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they dont understand. – Mary Wesley

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Learning
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Womens courage is rather different from mens. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle. – Mary Wesley

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Courage
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In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known. – Jane Smiley

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Marriage

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl – and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to – which you cant deny is the penalty of marriage. – Queen Victoria

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Marriage

Marriage is a gamble, lets be honest. – Yoko Ono

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Marriage

So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything – my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me. – Kathy Mattea

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Marriage

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