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“Bride had become the centre of his world. He was nothing without her. If he had to obey her every word for the rest…

— Gena Showalter

“Perhaps I won't marry then. Instead, you and I shall live as spinsters in a cottage by the sea. We'll burn our corsets, eat…

— Alyxandra Harvey

“I, the great and powerful D.S. will create a harem for all the women in the world!!!! For a woman, no greater joy exists…

— Kazushi Hagiwara

No," she cried, "no, no, I'm not a harem, I'm not a woman, I'm not a person, no.

— Gregory Maguire

“Truly, Francesca, if all women were like you, I would become a Turk solely for the purpose of assembling a harem.”

— Sara Poole

“All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Mother says that people like me just become intellectual old maids,' I told him. 'I don't see why,' he protested. 'Oh, well, it's probably…

— Vera Brittain

“It had been said that the art of successful marriage lay in choosing the person you could live with rather than the person you…

— Elizabeth Palmer

“To be a woman is fated vehemently morbid.”

— Avah Marie

“A man was not made to live alone. Had it not been for Mhudi, I don’t think you would have known me at all.…

— Sol T. Plaatje

“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

“As soon as I get a ship that can take to the open seas, I'm going to find and rescue and - if there's…

— Tim Powers