“But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.”
Mrs. Croft to her brother Frederick Wentworth about his hesitancy to have a woman aboard his ship
Persuasion, volume 1, chapter 8
The Jane Austen Guide to Life: Thoughtful Lessons for the Modern Woman (May, 2012)
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She is eminently sensible, is she not?
She is eminently sensible, is she not?