Eve Garnett Quotes

″...the Dustman and his wife were proud of their numerous girls and boys, all-growing-up-fine-and-strong-one-behind-the-other-like-steps-in-a-ladder...”

″‘Plain she may have been,’ retorted Rosie, ‘but my baby’s a beauty;‘”

“Her great trial in life was her name, for she was a red-haired stoutish child and bore no resemblance to a lily of any kind or a rose unless it were a cabbage one, but, as she sometimes sighed, she supposed it might have been worse.”

“Her great ambition was to own a laundry too- not a ‘hand’ affair likes mother’s, but a real steam one where she would walk about and tell dozens of girls in white overalls how to work.”

“It would be a lovely surprise, and at the same time a way of showing what she could do once she really had a free hand.”