The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey. – Sarah Fielding
The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination. – Sarah Fielding

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey. – Sarah Fielding
The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination. – Sarah Fielding
Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgins lot. – Arnold Bennett