E. M. Forster Quotes
For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy.
Forster, E. M. Where Angels Fear to Tread. William Blackwood and Sons, 1905.
The Prophet had ruled that before the age of 7, the mother always retained custody unless she remarried in which case custody, went to the father. A divorced couple with their 7 year old son had been brought before him for a custody decision. Based on this decision, Islamic law makes a boy choose between his 2 parents after he/she reaches the age of 7. Girls reaching 7, transfer to the custody of their father until they are married.
Edward Morgan Forster OM CH was an English fiction writer, essayist and librettist. Many of his novels examine class difference and hypocrisy, including A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). The last brought him his greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 separate years.
