Young Women

Famous quotes containing the words young and/or women:

“Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“Sometimes my wife complains that she’s overwhelmed with work and just can’t take one of the kids, for example, to a piano lesson. I’ll offer to do it for her, and then she’ll say, “No, I’ll do it.” We have to negotiate how much I trespass into that mother role—it’s not given up easily.”
—Anonymous Father. As quoted in Women and Their Fathers, by Victoria Secunda, ch. 3 (1992)