Quote#Love
Man has subdued the world, but woman has subdued man. Mind and muscle…
Quote byMary Abigail Dodge · 1833–1896
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Woman's Worth and Worthlessness (1872), Ch. XVII: "Results", p. 289..
English (original)
Man has subdued the world, but woman has subdued man. Mind and muscle have won his victories; love and loveliness have gained hers. No monarch has been so great, no peasant so lowly, that he has not been glad to lay his best at the feet of a woman.
— Mary Abigail Dodge
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