Quote#Love
At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered…
Quote bySarah Grimké · 1792–1873
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Harriot Hunt (1853), as quoted in The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Woman's [sic] Rights and Abolition, p. 241, by Gerda Lerner. Editorial Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 0195106032..
English (original)
At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline. Yet I have sometimes tasted exquisite joy and have found solace for many a woe in the innocence and earnest love of Theodore's children. But for this my life would have little to record of mundane pleasures.
— Sarah Grimké
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