“I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle…. Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)”

—  Elizabeth Peters, Crocodile on the Sandbank

Source: Crocodile on the Sandbank

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