Traditionally, marriage involved a kind of bartering, rather than mutual inter-dependence or role sharing. Husbands financially an...d economically supported wives, while wives emotionally, psychologically and socially supported husbands. He brought home the bacon, she cooked it. He fixed the plumbing, she the psyche.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But when my seven long years are out, O, then I'll marry Sally;... O, then we'll wed, and then we'll bed-- But not in our alley!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The land of shadows wilt thou trace And look nor know each other's face... The present mixed with reasons gone And past and present all as one Say maiden can thy life be led To join the living with the dead Then trace thy footsteps on with me We're wed to one eternityLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most of the folktales dealing with the Indians are lurid and romantic. The story of the Indian lovers who were refused permission ...to wed and committed suicide is common to many places. Local residents point out cliffs where Indian maidens leaped to their death until it would seem that the first duty of all Indian girls was to jump off cliffs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The excremental is all too intimately and inseparably bound up with the sexual: the position of the genitals--inter urinas et faec...es--remains the decisive and unchangeable factor. One might say here, varying a well-known saying of the great Napoleon: "Anatomy is destiny."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity.... Nothing in the world was irrelevant: t...he stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds.... Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Twilight combined with the scenery of Egdon Heath to evolve a thing majestic without severity, impressive without showiness, empha...tic in its admonitions, grand in its simplicity. The qualifications which frequently invest the facade of a prison with far more dignity than is found in the facade of a palace double its size lent to this health a sublimity in which spots renowned for beauty of the accepted kind are utterly wanting. Fair prospects wed happily with fair times; but alas, if times be not fair!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »