Gertrude Atherton Quotes

Did Any Great Genius Ever Enter The World In The Wake Of Commonplace Pre-natal Conditions? Was A Maker Of History Ever Born Amidst The Pleasant Harmonies Of A Satisfied Domesticity? Of A Mother Who Was Less Than Remarkable, Although She May Have Escaped Being Great? Did A Woman With No Wildness In Her Blood Ever Inform A Brain With Electric Fire? The Students Of History Know That While Many Mothers Of Great Men Have Been Virtuous, None Have Been Commonplace, And Few Have Been Happy.

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