Sylvia Townsend Warner Quotes about Children

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Oh, I am all for singing. If I had had children I should have hounded them into choirs & choral societies, and if they weren't good enough for that, I would have sent them out, to sing in the streets.

Oh, I am all for singing. If I had had children I should have hounded them into choirs & choral societies, and if they weren't good enough for that, I would have sent them out, to sing in the streets.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Children, Should Have, Singing

Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

Children driven good are apt to be driven mad.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Children, Mad, Driven

Sylvia Townsend Warner (2011). “Scenes of Childhood”, p.8, Faber & Faber

I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Children, Parent, Age

Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1994). “The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Virago Pr