The Price of LoveBy Mary Austin(From “Love and the Soul Maker.”[12])
By Mary Austin
(From “Love and the Soul Maker.”[12])
“But love,” Valda insisted, ... “should be free.”
“If it is, Nature didn’t make it so. Automatically the end of loving ties up with it those who love and the unborn.
“No sooner do we begin upon it than we enter upon certainties of effecting the happiness of the one who loves with us, and the potential third. It is so little free, that we can neither go out of it nor into it on the mere invitation, nor abate by saying so one of the widening circles of its disaster. Whether for better or worse, love is irrevocably tied to its consequences.”
By Mme. de Girardin
It is not easy to be a widow; one must resume all the modesty of girlhood without being allowed even to feign ignorance.
By Comtesse d’ Houdetot
I have seen more than one woman drown her honor in the clear water of diamonds.
By De Maintenon
Before marriage woman is a queen; after marriage, a subject.
By de l’Enclos
The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
By Anne Morton Barnard
A prison, plus “love”, is tyranny with its crown carefully hidden.
Mrs. W. K. Clifford
Why should man, who is strong, always get the best of it, and be forgiven so much; and woman who is weak, get the worst, and be forgiven so little?
By George Eliot
The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her own beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.
By Marguerite de Valois
There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run by patience and love, unless they are harder than the rocks which the soft water penetrates in time.
By Countess Natahlie
Love is the association of two beings for the benefit of one.
George Eliot
We look at one little woman’s face we love, as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see all sorts of answers to our yearnings.
By “Ouida”
What is it that love does to woman? Without it, she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
By Mme. de Lambert
It is only the coward who reproaches as a dishonor the love a woman has cherished for him.
By Amelia E. Barr
The truth is, women are lost because they do not deliberate.
By Mrs. Alec Tweedie
(See page 126)
There will be more marriages, and happier marriages, when women are on an equal footing with men in education and income.
By Mme. du Bocage
The coquette comprises her reputation, and sometimes even her virtue; the prude, on the contrary, often sacrifices her honor in private, and preserves it in public.
By George Sand
A woman cannot guarantee her heart, even though her husband be the greatest and most perfect of men.
By Mme. de Rieux
In all ill-mated marriages, the fault is less the woman’s than the man’s, as the choice depended on her the least.
By Marguerite de Valois
There are women so hard to please that it seems as if nothing less than an angel will suit them; hence it comes that they often meet with devils.
By Mme. Bachi
Men bestow compliments only on women who deserve none.
By Mme. de Rieux
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty, and women their happiness.
By Mme. de Flahaut
Manners, morals, customs change; the passions are always the same.
By Mme. Necker
The quarrels of lovers are like summer showers that leave the country more verdant and beautiful.
By Mme. Reyband
To continue love in marriage is a science.
By Anna Jameson
How many women since the days of Echo and Narcissus have pined themselves into air for the love of men who were in love only with themselves.
By Amelia E. Barr
Cruelly tempted, perplexed and bewildered, when passion is stronger than reason, women do not think of consequences, but go blindfolded, headlong to their ruin.
By Louise Colet
Better to have never loved, than to have loved unhappily, or to havehalfloved.
By De Pompadour
Love is the passion of great souls; it makes them merit glory, when it does not turn their heads.
Mme. de Stael
I am glad I am not a man, as I should be obliged to marry a woman.
By Mme. de Motteville
A woman can be held by no stronger tie than the knowledge that she is loved.
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