Quote#Children
... are puddings and pies, roasting and boiling, dusting and washing,…
Quote byMarion Kirkland Reid · 1815–1902
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: A Plea for Woman (1843), Ch. 6.
English (original)
... are puddings and pies, roasting and boiling, dusting and washing, or even the rearing and educating her children, so entirely to engross her attention, that her heart and mind can never expand beyond her own little domestic circle? Nay, if her mind never does so expand, will she be able properly to regulate the concerns even of that little circle?
— Marion Kirkland Reid
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