Victoria Ward (1939 - 1992) was an English actress. She was married to the actor Sir Alan Bates from 1970 until her premature death from a heart attack in 1992.
They had twin sons - the actors Benedick Bates and the late Tristan Bates. Tristan died suddenly from an asthma attack in 1990.
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“Sometimes my wife complains that she’s overwhelmed with work and just can’t take one of the kids, for example, to a piano lesson. I’ll offer to do it for her, and then she’ll say, “No, I’ll do it.” We have to negotiate how much I trespass into that mother role—it’s not given up easily.”
—Anonymous Father. As quoted in Women and Their Fathers, by Victoria Secunda, ch. 3 (1992)
“Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.”
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