wooing

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33bdd99	I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.	courtship empowerment freedom happiness husbands independence love marriage self-determination singles wooing	William Shakespeare
6e3fb3c	Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.	love lovers-quarrels wooing	William Shakespeare
3b5cdcb	I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand -- . Know this at last.	conscience courtship dignity empowerment feminism gender independence integrity love marriage matrimony self-determination social-norms women wooing	Charlotte Brontë
edd10b5	It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.	humility inspirational love self-deprecating wooing	T.H. White
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
dccf0d0	Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.	courtship dignity empowerment happiness husbands independence love marriage marriage-proposal matrimony pleasure self-determination wooing	William Shakespeare
5c5ecac	"What is wrong with the [tale of] Two Swords?" he asked, even more surprised. "Don't you care for it?" "There is too bloody much romance in it," she said curtly. Ah, well, here was the crux of it, apparently. "Don't you like romance?" he ventured. She looked as though she were trying to decide if she should weep or, as he had earlier predicted, stick him with whatever blade she could lay her, hand on. "I don't know," she said briskly. "I see," he said, though he didn't. He wished, absently, that he'd had at least one sister. He was very well versed in what constituted courtly behavior and appropriate formal wooing practices, thanks to his father's insistence on many such lectures delivered by a dour man whose only acquaintance with women had likely come from reading about them in a book, but he had absolutely no idea how to proceed with a woman whose first instinct when faced with something that made her uncomfortable was to draw her sword. ... "I'll stop provoking you, but I will have the answer to a question. Why do you think most men woo?" "Because they have no sword skill and need something with which to occupy their time?"	female-fighter wooing	Lynn Kurland
c583fe2	I'll never miss a chance to remind you of what a brat you were. A gloriously beautiful and very spoiled brat. I was utterly charmed by your complete self-absorption. It was rather like courting a cat.	brat cat chance charm court courtship glorious joke like love narcissim narcissistic narcissus poke-fun pursue remind reminiscence self-absorption spoled tease woo wooing	Robin Hobb

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

courtship empowerment freedom happiness husbands independence love marriage self-determination singles wooing

William Shakespeare

6e3fb3c

Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.

love lovers-quarrels wooing

William Shakespeare

3b5cdcb

I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand -- . Know this at last.

conscience courtship dignity empowerment feminism gender independence integrity love marriage matrimony self-determination social-norms women wooing

Charlotte Brontë

edd10b5

It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.

humility inspirational love self-deprecating wooing

T.H. White

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

dccf0d0

Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.

courtship dignity empowerment happiness husbands independence love marriage marriage-proposal matrimony pleasure self-determination wooing

William Shakespeare

5c5ecac

"What is wrong with the [tale of] Two Swords?" he asked, even more surprised. "Don't you care for it?" "There is too bloody much romance in it," she said curtly. Ah, well, here was the crux of it, apparently. "Don't you like romance?" he ventured. She looked as though she were trying to decide if she should weep or, as he had earlier predicted, stick him with whatever blade she could lay her, hand on. "I don't know," she said briskly. "I see," he said, though he didn't. He wished, absently, that he'd had at least one sister. He was very well versed in what constituted courtly behavior and appropriate formal wooing practices, thanks to his father's insistence on many such lectures delivered by a dour man whose only acquaintance with women had likely come from reading about them in a book, but he had absolutely no idea how to proceed with a woman whose first instinct when faced with something that made her uncomfortable was to draw her sword. ... "I'll stop provoking you, but I will have the answer to a question. Why do you think most men woo?" "Because they have no sword skill and need something with which to occupy their time?"

female-fighter wooing

Lynn Kurland

c583fe2

I'll never miss a chance to remind you of what a brat you were. A gloriously beautiful and very spoiled brat. I was utterly charmed by your complete self-absorption. It was rather like courting a cat.

brat cat chance charm court courtship glorious joke like love narcissim narcissistic narcissus poke-fun pursue remind reminiscence self-absorption spoled tease woo wooing

Robin Hobb