“When a woman marries she belongs to another man; and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.”
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This Business of Living (1935-1950)
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Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator 1908–1950Related quotes

“When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me. She loves me forever.”
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“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”
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“Man, life was complicated. But the truth was simple. He was her home. He was where she belonged.”
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Source: Political Treatise (1677), Ch. 2, Of Natural Right
Context: Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's; but, under nature, everything belongs to all — that is, they have authority to claim it for themselves. But, under dominion, where it is by common law determined what belongs to this man, and what to that, he is called just who has a constant will to render to every man his own, but he, unjust who strives, on the contrary, to make his own that which belongs to another.