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But she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that men would be so, and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally

But she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks.

George Eliot
Sex, Husband, Animal
George Eliot (1998). “Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe”, OUP Oxford

Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.

George Eliot
Husband, Men, Order
George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.540, Penguin

... happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired.

George Eliot
Husband, Tired, Wife

You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.

George Eliot
Husband, Men, Said
George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.109, Penguin

That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger-not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose.

George Eliot
Funny, Husband, Wife
George Eliot (2004). “Silas Marner (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.113, Sparklesoup LLC

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

George Eliot
Husband, Women, Home
The Mill on the Floss bk. 6, ch. 6 (1860)

There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives--when the slow urgency of growing generations turns into the tread of an invading army or the dire clash of civil war, and grey fathers know nothing to seek for but the corpses of their blooming sons, and girls forget all vanity to make lint and bandages which may serve for the shattered limbs of their betrothed husbands.

George Eliot
Girl, Husband, War
George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.689, Oxford Paperbacks

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