“ love has a very dulling effect on the brain ”
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.
I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
