“A woman loves to be obeyed at first, although afterwards she finds her pleasure in obeying.”
The Suicide Club, Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk.
The New Arabian Nights (1882)
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“They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down…”
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“She commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him.”
The Good Wife.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)

“In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.”

Leviticus 26:1-13
God doesn't believe in atheists (2002)

RODIN, AUGUSTE. L'Art. Entretiens réunis par Paul Gsell, 1911

Source: Peace of Soul (1949), Ch. 5, p. 85