Intelligence Quote by Helen Simonson

“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

“But she had a lively acquaintaince with confinement through the works of women novelists, especially those of the unmarried ones.”

— Stella Gibbons

“She is afraid of divorce, which will free her, as she was not enough afraid of marriage, which trapped her.”

— a.s. byatt

“It is often hazardous to marry an heiress, as she is not unfrequently the last of a diseased family.”

— Erasmus Darwin

“The girl, indeed, is rare who does not, on getting married, attempt to remodel her husband according to her own ideas.”

— Lyubov Dostoyevskaya

“Marriage is always a hopeless idiocy for a woman who has enough of her own to live upon.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“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

“Sane women did not marry tyrants.”

— Stephanie Laurens

“She has carefully audited her life and found she has no requirement for a husband.”

— Helen Smith

“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

“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

“the vast edifice of expectation and commitment that a marriage would pile on her.”

— Marius Gabriel