Boleyn Children

Famous quotes containing the words boleyn and/or children:

    Toll on, thou passing bell;
    Ring out my doleful knell;
    —George Boleyn (d. 1536)

    The risk for a woman who considers her helpless children her “job” is that the children’s growth toward self-sufficiency may be experienced as a refutation of the mother’s indispensability, and she may unconsciously sabotage their growth as a result.
    Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century)