Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.
Marie von Ebner-EschenbachThere are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.
Marie von Ebner-EschenbachNever expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach