Quote by Helen Simonson Download Open image ““Compounding lack of funds with intelligence, she makes herself unmarriageable.”” — Helen Simonson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“No one had ever advocated her independence before. The entire success of her marriage, her whole career as a woman, depended largely upon her… — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
“But she had a lively acquaintaince with confinement through the works of women novelists, especially those of the unmarried ones.” — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
“She is afraid of divorce, which will free her, as she was not enough afraid of marriage, which trapped her.” — a.s. byatt Copy Share Image
“It is often hazardous to marry an heiress, as she is not unfrequently the last of a diseased family.” — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
“The girl, indeed, is rare who does not, on getting married, attempt to remodel her husband according to her own ideas.” — Lyubov Dostoyevskaya Copy Share Image
“Marriage is always a hopeless idiocy for a woman who has enough of her own to live upon.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“To give herself a measure of credible autonomy, she had decided to invent a husband. Then, in a subsequent flash of inspiration, she had… — Tracy Anne Warren Copy Share Image
“She has carefully audited her life and found she has no requirement for a husband.” — Helen Smith Copy Share Image
“But she was too big to be a thief, too honest to be an assassin, too intelligent to be a wife, and too proud… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Yet women, whose minds are not enlarged by cultivation, or in whom the natural selfishness of sensibility hasn’t been expanded by reflection, are very… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“the vast edifice of expectation and commitment that a marriage would pile on her.” — Marius Gabriel Copy Share Image
I later realized that this is my view of passion: It is rooted in genuine friendship. Chemistry may be two strangers exchanging smoldering looks—but… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
“There is often an inverse correlation between genius and personal hygiene.” — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
But it's not enough to be in love. It's about how you spend your days, what you do together, who you choose as friends,… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
My neighbor Alice Pierce is fond of singing folk music to her garden plants. Thinks it makes them grow or something. The Major had… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
“do you really know what it means to be in love with an unsuitable woman?" "Is there any other kind?” — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
“So he dreams himself the life he cannot have?” “Exactly. But we, who can do anything, we refuse to live our dreams on the… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
“he realized he had inspired a sense of trust and indebtedness that would make it entirely impossible for an honorable man to attempt to… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
“At our age, surely there are better things to sustain us, to sustain a marriage, than the brief flame of passion?" ..."You are mistaken,… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
“It took him a moment to realize that they had been painted to look like fingernails, and he sighed over the extraordinary range of… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
“She looked at him and he read in her eyes a disappointment that he should have stooped to the dead relative excuse. Yet he… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
“He had never imagined so clearly the consequences of mailing a letter—the impossibility of retrieving it from the iron mouth of the box; the… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
