A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming.


The Works of George Eliot: Scenes of clerical life. Silas Marner (ed. 1900)

George Eliot Quotes

A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all...

A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all...

A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all...

A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all...