It was the same with her wishes; they met their fulfillment, from the extreme and delicate art with which she insinuated them into her husband’s mind, as his own. She sacrificed the show of authority for power.
Elizabeth Gaskell, “The Doom of the Griffiths”
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heathenlyhues said:
isn’t that the role of every woman in every relationship?
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