Status Updates From The Portrait of a Lady

« - I wish to choose my fate and know something of human affairs beyond what other people think it compatible with propriety to tell me.
- I shall be delighted to help you in any way in my power.
- The best way to help me will be to put as many hundred miles of sea between us as possible.
- One would think you were going to commit some atrocity!
- I wish to be free even to do that if the fancy takes me. »

LMAO

« - I refused a proposal of marriage last week. I was offered a great position and a great fortune by a person whom I like extremely.
- I’m glad he’s disappointed.
- Well then, as companions in this misfortune, make the best of it. »

LMAO SHE’S SAVAGE

« - I don’t need the aid of a clever man to teach me how to live. I can find it out for myself.
- Find out how to live alone? I wish that, when you have, you’d teach me.
She looked at him a moment, then with a quick smile:
- Oh, YOU ought to marry. »

Yes please put that stalker creep back in his place, I love this woman

« I really don’t want to marry, or to talk about it at all. I shall probably never do it. I’ve a perfect right to feel that way, and it’s no kindness to a woman to press her so hard, to urge her against her will. I can’t marry you simply to please you. »

This is a female character written by a man more than a century ago, so men today have absolutely no excuse for not understanding that no means no.