Famous quotes containing the words greatest, gay and/or adult:
“The greatest love is a mother’s;
Then comes a dog’s,
Then comes a sweetheart’s.”
—(20th century)
“The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife’s spirits.”
—John Gay (1685–1732)
“Fashions change, and with the new psychoanalytical perspective of the postwar period [WWII], child rearing became enshrined as the special responsibility of mothers ... any shortcoming in adult life was now seen as rooted in the failure of mothering during childhood.”
—Sylvia Ann Hewitt (20th century)