Better a serpent than a stepmother!
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There was no convincing me that a stepmother could be anything but a wicked ogre, and I acted accordingly.
To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another's.
I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
The little serpent has left, and the great serpent has come.
Every great story seems to begin with a snake.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
I never had that wicked stepmother or evil stepfather thing at all. I'm very close to both step-parents and I consider them to be my parents, too.
I am a stepmother to the fullest extent.