Quote#Love
No pure and noble-minded woman can long love affectionately, and…
Quote byMarion Kirkland Reid · 1815–1902
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: A Plea for Woman (1843), Ch. 3.
English (original)
No pure and noble-minded woman can long love affectionately, and submit passively to, a vicious and dissipated, — or even to a good and virtuous tyrant, — without having her own mind greatly deteriorated.
— Marion Kirkland Reid
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