Authority Quote by Jane Austen

“Nevertheless, we cannot escape the suspicion that individuality might be inhibited by marriage, and we wonder whether people in open relationships might not really…

— Daniel Bullen

“I have myself known two southern wives who exhorted their husbands to free those slaves towards whom they stood in a "parental relation;" and…

— Harriet A. Jacobs

“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

“My father was a stand–up man who, unfortunately, did not have anything to stand up for. An eternal conflict burned in his heart, a…

— Henry Martin

“How was it that her whole life could be distilled down to that simple truth? Words mattered. Her life had been defined by things…

— Kristen Hannah

“Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young…

— Jane Austen

“That I was not long brought up by the concubine of my father; that I preserved the flower of my youth. That I took…

— Marcus Aurelius

“None was more indifferent to convention than herself, and the marriage tie especially excited her ridicule, but she despised entirely those who disregarded the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“They stay like this, in silence, both aware that they have created something together. Defiance. A pushing back of a darkness that no one…

— Tony Burgess

“The Fawleys were not made for wedlock: it never seemed to sit well upon us. There's sommat in our blood that won't take kindly…

— Thomas Hardy

“Whatever the case, he saw now that it was a rare, difficult and improbable thing for two people from worlds apart to find themselves…

— Amitav Ghosh

“His wives had discovered early on what a poor or frightening prospect of a father he presented and they had protected themselves and got…

— Ian McEwan