"Marriage is the operation by which a woman's……" — Helen Rowland

"Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic."

— Helen Rowland

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99 Quotes by Helen Rowland

Helen Rowland has 99 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.
The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.
A fool and her money are soon courted.
Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.
An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife…
It is as hard to get a man to stay at home after you've married him as it was to…
There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives…
When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one…
Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it
It's easier to hide your light under a bushel than to keep your shady side dark.
To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he…
Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are…

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More Anaesthetic Quotes

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That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your… — D. H. Lawrence
Death: the anaesthetic from which none come round. — Philip Larkin
A remedy for masturbation which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision, especially when there is any degree… — John Harvey Kellogg
Marx called religion an opiate, and all too often it is. But philosophy is an anaesthetic, a shot to keep… — N.D. Wilson
When the invasion began, the British public was called upon to 'support' troops sent illegally and undemocratically to kill people… — John Pilger
IN PERSIA I SAW that poetry is meant to be set to music & chanted or sung--for one reason alone--because… — Hakim
There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence.… — Richard Dawkins
When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a… — Richard Dawkins
An anaesthetic is a poet-killer. — Lewis Hyde

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