| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1642a05 | There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. | marriage matches matrimony mind purpose suitability unhappiness | Charles Dickens | |
| 2428b8f | "No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne." "I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you." She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice behind her; her eyes flashed large, dilated, unsmiling. "And ask in what sense that young man is worthy of ?" | courtship dignity empowerment equality feminism gender independence inferiority integrity marriage marriage-proposal matrimony men self-awareness self-determination social-norms suitability women wooing worthiness | Charlotte Brontë |