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1 " The more independent Sarah had inherited some of her father’s toughness and seemed better able to cope with being a Churchill. Funny, beautiful and at ease with the rich and famous around her. "
― , Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
2 " Encouraged by her headmistress Beatrice Harris, whose embrace of feminine independence and suffragist views would have an enduring influence on Clementine, she was secretly nursing dreams of academia. "
3 " Clementine was welcomed back to her old school by the headmistress, Beatrice Harris, who had imbued her with ideas of female independence. Clementine never forgot her encouragement and example. "
4 " Her semi-exclusion was the consequence of Eleanor’s being “too independent, too strong, ethically too unrelenting to provide him with the kind of relaxed, unjudging company he wanted. "
5 " The sad truth was that Clementine found his dependency draining; like a child, he was petulant, moody and demanding. "
6 " Gratitude belongs to history & not to politics, "
7 " What a comfort & pleasure it was to me to meet a girl with so much intellectual quality & such strong reserves of noble sentiment,” he wrote, adding that he hoped they would lay the foundations of a “frank & clear-eyed friendship” with “many serious feelings of respect. "
8 " Society ladies even wore bracelets with swastika charms in tribute to the führer. Many admired how Hitler was putting a muscular pride back into a defeated country, creating a power that, in acting as a bulwark against the Communist hordes to the east, deserved to be hailed as Europe’s savior. The "
9 " His brief, almost nonchalant statement about the government’s “somewhat difficult position” prompted such bedlam in the House of Commons that two distraught MPs actually vomited. "