Quote by John Milton

“delicate yet strong there's a certain balance that only a woman like her can obtain she knows what she deserves ]and provided anything less…

— R.H. Sin

“Whatever she suffered, whatever loss came to her, she would throw it off, for it was not in her nature to go under. Although…

— Winston Graham

“But she would not think better of him just because he possessed the decency not to blackmail her. Refusing to take advantage of a…

— Meljean Brook

“The loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable - that one false step involves in her endless ruin - that her reputation is…

— Jane Austen

“He could not admire her destructive loyalty to her brother. But it was born of the steel at her core. As a girl, she…

— Meredith Duran

“Is a woman bound to wifely obedience, when the result will be to turn her out of the estate of wife?”

— Hilary Mantel

“Wouldst thou, then, have preferred the condition of a weak woman, exposed to all evil and capable of none?”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“There would be a sweet release of strength and responsibility, a sinking into another’s power, no need to feign her own. This”

— Hugh Howey

“Tis the curse of a woman of influence that she must always be reckoned unvirtuous.”

— Susanna Kearsley

All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to minister to…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

“That loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable-- that one false step involves her in endless ruin-- that her reputation is no less…

— Jane Austen

“Noble morality! and consistent with the cautious prudence of a little soul that cannot extend its views beyond the present minute division of existence.…

— Mary Wollstonecraft