George Eliot on Women
1819–1880 England
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The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
Howiver, I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
Adam Bede (1859)
Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.
Her lot is made for her by the love she accepts.
I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
There are * * * robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.
Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless; nay, the speech they have resolved not to make.