Famous quotes containing the words victoria and/or billings:
“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)
“We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.”
—Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818–1885)
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