Mail Order Bride

Famous quotes containing the words mail, order and/or bride:

“The mail from Tunis, probably,
An easy Morning’s Ride—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

“Almost everywhere we find . . . the use of various coercive measures, to rid ourselves as quickly as possible of the child within us—i.e., the weak, helpless, dependent creature—in order to become an independent competent adult deserving of respect. When we reencounter this creature in our children, we persecute it with the same measures once used in ourselves.”
—Alice Miller (20th century)

“He took the bride about the neck
And kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack
That at the parting all the church did echo.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)