Jennifer Worth Professions : Author Born : September 25, 1935 Died : May 31, 2011 Browse All Authors Top 17 quotes by Jennifer Worth There is a greater gift than the trust of others. That is to trust in oneself. Some might call it confidence, others name it faith. But if it makes us brave, the label doesn’t matter... for it’s the thing that frees us, to embrace life itself. Jennifer Worth labels brave names The shell must be broken before the bird can fly. Jennifer Worth shells broken bird Bah! Suffragettes. I've no time for suffragettes. They made the biggest mistake in history. They went for equality. They should have gone for power! Jennifer Worth should-have gone mistake Health is the greatest of God's gifts, but we take it for granted; yet it hangs on a thread as fine as a spider's web and the tiniest thing can make it snap, leaving the strongest of us helpless in an instant. Jennifer Worth spiders granted leaving Now and then in life, love catches you unawares, illuminating the dark corners of your mind, and filling them with radiance. Once in awhile you are faced with a beauty and a joy that takes your soul, all unprepared, by assault. Jennifer Worth love-life dark joy I've loved someone since I was seventeen but I can't have him and I can't give him up. So until I can do that no one else will stand a chance. Jennifer Worth seventeen chance giving Was it love of people?' I asked her. 'Of course no,' she snapped sharply. 'How can you love ignorant, brutish people whom you don't even know? Can anyone love filth and squalor? Or lice and rats? Who can love aching weariness, and carry on working, in spite of it? One cannot love these things. One can only love God, and through His grace come to love His people. Jennifer Worth ignorant grace people I remember the days of my youth when everything was new and bright; when the mind was always questing, searching, absorbing; when the pain of love was so acute it could suffocate, and the days when joy was delirious. Jennifer Worth pain time joy Love doesn't adhere to time and boundaries does it? It just is. Jennifer Worth boundaries doe Whoever heard of a midwife as a literary heroine? Yet midwifery is the very stuff of drama. Every child is conceived either in love or lust, is born in pain, followed by joy or sometimes remorse. A midwife is in the thick of it, she sees it all. Jennifer Worth pain drama children Tread softly as you draw near to the bedside of a dying man, for the space around him is holy ground. Speak in hushed tones, with awe and reverence, as you would in a cathedral. Let not the mind engage in trivial thoughts. The awesome majesty of Death can only be met in silence. Jennifer Worth holy-ground space men Faith is a private matter, usually held deep within a person, quiet, impossible to recognise or understand, if you have no faith yourself Jennifer Worth reflection matter impossible That's the trouble, I can't forget him. He was everything to me, except mine. Jennifer Worth mines trouble forget I am forced to the conclusion that modern medicine does not know it all. Jennifer Worth know-it-all medicine doe Their devotion showed me there were no versions of love there was only... Love. That it had no equal and that it was worth searching for, even if that search took a lifetime. Jennifer Worth equal devotion lifetime Quite honestly, a baby covered in blood, still slightly blue, eyes screwed up, in the first few minutes after birth, is not an object of beauty. Jennifer Worth eye blue baby Sister Monica Joan murmured, as though to herself, but loud enough to be heard by all, "How perfectly charming. Old enough to know it all, and young enough to blush. Perfectly charming. Jennifer Worth know-it-all charming enough Similar Authors F. E. Marsh author Iimani David author Beatrice Faust author Isabella Macdonald Alden author Isabella Beeton author Alan AtKisson author All Authors
