“Marriage is always a hopeless idiocy for a woman who has enough of her own to live upon.”
“It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for any body who asks her.”
“Oh! to be sure," cried Emma, "it is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for any body who asks her.”
“The perfect marriage, like the perfect body, is mythical. I never met a woman who's said she has the perfect marriage or the perfect body...There's always something lacking. -- Virgin Bride”
“A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.”
“I have watched him as only a woman can watch a man upon whom her fate depends, but it has always been in vain.”