Adultery Quote by Émile Zola

“Indeed, a convent was a kind of early think tank for women, since it was the preferred choice of intellectuals wanting to escape marriage.”

— Magnus Flyte

“She carried herself like a queen,: gracefully, regal, and dignified. She was all woman and every inch a lady, and he had never seen…

— Elaine Coffman

“She dutifully attended McDonald’s gatherings in later years, and she was liked by operators’ wives and by women on the staff, but there was…

— Ray Kroc

“Her father's old books were all she could command, and these she wore out with much reading. Inheriting his refined tastes, she found nothing…

— Louisa May Alcott

“In the eighties, when she chiefly flourished, husbands were taken seriously, as the only real obstacles to sin. Beds too, if they had to…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“In Paris, women were not considered interesting until they were middle-aged. The Mist of Montmartre”

— Peggy Kopman-Owens

“It had been easy to decide in favor of love on Bethune Street, in favor of walking proud and naked on the grass rug…

— Richard Yates

“There was a lot to be said for the discipline of married life. It forced one to learn the art of compromise, and to…

— John Connolly

“the house had been set up by two countesses ‘by divine inspiration, as it is piously believed’, to preserve the respectability of women who…

— Michael Pye

“Helen leaned down over her husband and ran her lips lightly across his bare shoulder in good-bye. Maybe, someday, she would find him by…

— Josephine Angelini

“Edith stared at the ceiling, contemplating the oddness of life. Here she was with this man, whom she hardly knew when she really thought…

— Julian Fellowes

“She replied that it was precisely men well versed in religion who beat their wives. The precepts of religion permitted such punishment. A virtuous…

— Nawal El Saadawi