Leorah-langdon Quote by Melanie Dickerson

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

— Marius Gabriel

“But she had recently come to think that in such unhappy times--when the odds were so high against personal happiness--to find love was miraculous,…

— Bernard Malamud

“And this I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“She was the most loyal, forgiving, headstrong, passionate woman he’d ever met in his life, and he was madly in love with her”

— Jennifer Probst

“marriage had always been her object; it was the only provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness,…

— Jane Austen

“When a woman knows she cannot attain her worldly love , she gives it an eternal form.”

— Haritha Velpureddy

“Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I will end up an old maid.”

— Jane Austen

“A rare, deep and passionate love.”

— Guillaume Musso

“I should think it might be difficult to possess a wife whom almost every other man in town has known so intimately, but no…

— Oakley Hall

“For although she had been, and still was, very much admired, she had got into the way of preferring unsatisfactory love affairs to any…

— Barbara Pym

“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

“To love a woman, the mate must also love her wildish nature.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés