“People with strong feelings and of nervous temperament, for which one is no more responsible than for the colour of one's eyes, have things to fight against and to put up with, unknown to those of quiet equable dispositions, who are free from violent emotions, and have consequently no feeling of nerves -- still less, of irritable nerves. If I did not control mine they would be dreadful....One can overcome a great deal -- but -alter- one's self one cannot.... [Princess Alice, in a letter dated 24 September 1874]” EmotionsNervesPersonal ChangeDispositions Book:Princess Alice: Queen Victoria's Forgotten Daughter Source: Princess Alice: Queen Victoria's Forgotten Daughter
“I could have been quite happy and contented living in a cottage, if I had been able to share my intellectual interests, and intellectual aspirations with a husband whose strong, protective love would have guided me round the rocks strewn in my way by my own nature, outward circumstances, and the excesses of my own opinions. [Princess Alice, in a letter to her husband Prince Louis, 3 October 1876]” LoveMarriageCompatibility Book:Princess Alice: Queen Victoria's Forgotten Daughter Source: Princess Alice: Queen Victoria's Forgotten Daughter