“ No woman really wants a man to carry her off, she only wants him to want to do it. ”
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
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.
Any man with a grain of sense knows that marriage is the only way, these days, to acquire a full-time maid who works twenty-five hours a day, with no time off and no pay except room and board. (p9)
