"Next to being married, a girl likes..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?”

“An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.”

“Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.”

“I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes.”

“There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.”

“Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)”

“Nothing was happening in the bedroom. I nicknamed our waterbed the Dead Sea.”

“I told you once that [our marriage] was like an adolescent's dream of what marriage should be like. That hasn't changed.”

“Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.”