prelude

• 002 | if there were one level of feminine incompetence as strict as the ability to count three and no more, the social lot of women might be treated with scientific certitude.

chapter 01

• 005 | women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on.
• 006 | dorothea, with all her eagerness to know the truths of life, retained very childlike ideas about marriage.
• 009 | "no dear, no," said dorothea, stroking her sister's cheek. "souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another."
• 011 | the younger had always worn a yoke; but is there any yoked creature without its private opinions?

chapter 02

• 014 | "my mind is something like the ghost of an ancient, wandering about the world and trying mentally to construct it as it used to be, in spite of ruin and confusing changes."
• 016 | "no, no," said mr. brooke, shaking his head; "i cannot let young ladies meddle with my documents. young ladies are too flighty."
• 017 | in short, he felt himself to be in love in the right place, and was ready to endure a great deal of predominance, which, after all , a man could always put down when he liked.