“A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.”
Source: Middlemarch
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George Eliot 300
English novelist, journalist and translator 1819–1880Related quotes
“1817. Keep thy eyes wide open before Marriage; and half shut afterward.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1738) : Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
“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)
“A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.”
“No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!”
Source: The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli - Original Version
“She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Before marriage, she looked so.. (Pu La completes) Thin!”
In his hilarious work 'Mi ani majha shatrupaksha' (Me and my enemy party), Pu La criticizes people who bore others by telling them accounts of their travels, showing them pictures of holidays or discussing their housing construction plans. This particular quote is from a situation when the author is forced to sit through a painfully slow and boring display of old photographs by a husband and wife.
It is a play on the English word "looked" and the Marathi word "thin", which is pronounced "lukdi". The character who speaks the first part of the quote is intermingling English and Marathi in the lines.
From his various literature
Interview with the Al-Mar'a magazine in 1978, quoted in Price of Honor (2002) by Jane Goodwin.