Gwen Raverat Quotes:

The first religious experience that I can remember is getting under the nursery table to pray that the dancing mistress might be dead before we got to the Dancing Class.

source: - Gwen Raverat (2003). “Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood”, p.210, Clear Press Ltd

Topics: Dance, Religious, Class, Religious Experience

I have defined Ladies as people who did not do things themselves.

source: - Gwen Raverat (2003). “Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood”, p.119, Clear Press Ltd

Topics: People, Definitions

the chief thing I learnt at school was how to tell lies.

source: - Gwen Raverat (2003). “Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood”, p.72, Clear Press Ltd

Topics: Education, Lying, School

You can have no idea, if you have not tried, how difficult it is to find out anything whatever from an encyclopedia, unless you know all about it already ...

source: - Gwen Raverat (2003). “Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood”, p.112, Clear Press Ltd

Topics: Knowledge, Ideas, Difficult

you may take it from me, that however hard you try - or don't try; whatever you do - or don't do; for better, for worse; for richer, for poorer; every way and every day: the parent is always wrong. So it is no good bothering about it. When the little pests grow up they will certainly tell you exactly what you did wrong in their case. But never mind; they will be just as wrong themselves in their turn.

source: - Gwen Raverat (2003). “Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood”, p.52, Clear Press Ltd

Topics: Growing Up, Parent, Mind