And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
George EliotIt is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.
George EliotThe select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.
George EliotWhether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
George Eliot