Status Updates From The Portrait of a Lady

Having a hard time not shipping the cousins. In any case Ralph seems to only genuinely good intentioned character towards Isabel. And he’s so ahead of his time to be like ‘let’s just make the girl rich and she won’t have to marry a mid man, but also I’m not doing this for any personal gain, in fact it’s actually a massive personal loss monetarily’

Henrietta is a little bitch for that. Not a girl’s girl.

Also I totally relate to this turmoil that Isabel is feeling. She’s like, “what’s wrong with me that I can’t just do what society expects of me and marry one of the two great prospects I have and be happy with it? It’s not like I have plans for my life or anything” and it’s literally cuz she KNOWS these men don’t bring value to her life

« - 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.