“Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.”
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The Female Eunuch (1970)
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Source: Confessions of a Mask (1949), p. 208.
Context: I received an impassioned letter from Sonoko. There was no doubt that she was truly in love. I felt jealous. Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love?
“He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.”
Source: Delta of Venus
Dutch television interview (March 1, 2007)
2007, 2008
(Hudson Taylor’s Choice Sayings: A Compilation from His Writings and Addresses. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 69).
“Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.”
Funeral oration for John Peter Altgeld (14 March 1902)
Context: Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes has burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.