Henry Adams Quotes:
Ocupation: Historian
Life: February 16, 1838 - March 27, 1918
Birthday: February 16
Death: March 27
In correct theology, the Virgin ought not to be represented in bed, for she could not suffer like ordinary women, but her palace at Chartres is not much troubled by theology, and to her, as empress-mother, the pain of child-birth was a pleasure which she wanted her people to share.
source: Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.72, Penguin
topic: Mother, Children, Pain, Empresses, Birth Of A Child
