Kathleen Jones > Quotes

“it takes a very secure male ego to handle sexual equality.”
― Kathleen Jones, Catherine Cookson: Child of the Tyne

“cast thy bread upon the waters and it shall come back to thee after many days’.”
― Kathleen Jones, Catherine Cookson: Child of the Tyne

“Hers was a toughness born from bitterness and tragedy, where every ounce of optimism or humour had been beaten out of her by experience.”
― Kathleen Jones, Catherine Cookson: Child of the Tyne

“Women might be beaten senseless by their husbands in the house next door, but it was never mentioned.”
― Kathleen Jones, Catherine Cookson: Child of the Tyne

“if an infant’s earliest experience of his mother is such that he has not acquired the conviction of her essential "goodness", he will then find it impossible to achieve any conviction of his own essential "goodness" or lovability, and will possess no inner sense of self- esteem upon which to rely. However successful he may be in later life, he will remain intensely vulnerable to failure, rejection or disappointment, which will seem to him the end of the world, and throw him into profound depression.”
― Kathleen Jones, Catherine Cookson: Child of the Tyne

“A 'sack posset' - a kind of wine cup - was drunk by the couple and a piece of the bride cake broken over their heads. Margaret objected to the latter because it left crumbs in the bedclothes.”
― Kathleen Jones, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle: A Glorious Fame

“Bulstrode Whitelocke, chronicler of events during the Commonwealth,”
― Kathleen Jones, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle: A Glorious Fame

“she was never, I felt, truly emotionally warm towards anyone,”
― Kathleen Jones, Catherine Cookson: Child of the Tyne

“The Nominated Parliament - nicknamed the Barebones Parliament after one of its members, Praisegod Barebones”
― Kathleen Jones, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle: A Glorious Fame

“They ‘possess each other like demon lovers, alternately clinging together as one and then separating in furious mutual rejection. They encircle one another in a bond of steel …”
― Kathleen Jones, Catherine Cookson: Child of the Tyne