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“ I would be the first to admit that my maternal instincts are not well developed--though in defense I must add that the raising of Ramses would have discouraged any woman. ”

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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