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“ Nefret was still pouting when Emerson helped her into the carriage. Emerson did not observe the pout. He would not have observed it (men being what they are) even if something had not distracted him. ”

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I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)

~ Elizabeth Peters

No woman really wants a man to carry her off, she only wants him to want to do it.

~ Elizabeth Peters

I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.

~ Elizabeth Peters

Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

~ Elizabeth Peters