“When a Man has Married a Wife
He finds out whether
Her Knees & elbows are only
glued together.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1800–1803)
1800s
“A married man has only one duty towards his wife in order to make her happy, and that is to ensure that she is constantly pregnant, and with a child in her arms.”
Reimar Vagnsson
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Four: The Beauty of the Heavens
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Domino suo, imo Patri; Conjugi suo, imo Fratri; Ancilla sua, imo Filia; ipsius Uxor, imo Soror; Abaelardo Heloisa, &c. Abel. Op.
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Letter II : Heloise to Abelard, Heading
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Source: The Riverworld series, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971), Chapter 1 (p. 1; First lines, depicting the death of Sir Richard Francis Burton).
