JUST READ: The Woman in White (March 2016) #5“My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toa
JUST READ: The Woman in White (March 2016) #5“My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.” “We don’t want genius in this country unless it is accompanied by respectability.” “Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.” “No man under heaven deserves these sacrifices from us women. Men! They are the enemies of our innocence and our peace – they drag us away from our parents’ love and our sisters’ friendship – they take us body and soul to themselves, and fasten our helpless lives to theirs as they chain up a dog to his kennel. And what does the best of them give us in return?” “I am thinking,’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.” -- source link
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