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Frances Newman

  • ... she did not understand how her father could have reached such age and such eminence without learning that all mothers are as infallible as any pope and more righteous than any saint.

  • ... she knew that in Georgia no lady was supposed to know she was a virgin until she had ceased to be one ...

Frances Newman, U.S. writer

(1883 - 1928)