Marriage is not essential to the contentment, the dignity, or the happiness of woman.
Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the MassachusettsWoman you’re as mean as a copperhead. Come here let’s find out if you’re as cold-blooded.
Seducing the BridesmaidBut a good wife—a good unworldly woman—may really help a man, and keep him more independent.
Middlemarch