Tao Te Ching

The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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“Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest... A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.”

George Eliot 1819 – 1880 CE via Middlemarch (1871)
(Mary Anne Evans)
Pioneering literary outsider

from Romola (1863)​

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Marriage