“She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.”
― The Painted Veil
― The Painted Veil
“If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.”
― The Painted Veil
― The Painted Veil
“Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.”
― Of Human Bondage
― Of Human Bondage
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