Married Woman

Famous quotes containing the words married woman, married and/or woman:

“There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“You can’t be a Red if you’re married to a civil servant.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)

“Many a woman shudders ... at the terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness, hence the army of martyrs among our married and unmarried women who, not having cultivated a taste for science, art or literature, form a corps of nervous patients who make fortunes for agreeable physicians ...”
—Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)