Domestic Science Quotes

“Ond hen foi go lew ydi Twm, Sioned,’ medda fo, ‘ac mae o wedi penderfynu peidio deud wrth neb am y grempog honno rhag ofn i’r llanciau ‘ma ddychryn, ac y byddi di’n hen ferch ar hyd dy oes.’ Ffasiwn lol, ynte, fel taswn i’n hidio mae hen ferch fydda i, ac mae’n ddigon tebyg mai felly bydd hi hefyd, achos dydw i ddim wedi gweld neb yn debyg i Bob eto.

‘A good-hearted boy is Tom, Sioned,’ said Bob, ‘and he decided to say nothing about your cooking lest he frighten all the boys your age, and lose you any hope of a husband, and have you die an old maid.’ Little did they know, but I was likely to die an old maid in any case, for I’d found no-one the measure of Bob.”
― Winnie Parry