Sidney Webb

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    “O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!”
    —Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)

    “To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion—far less by the white fire of love.”
    —Mary Webb (1881–1927)