“she feels still that grasp upon her ankle as if it were a circlet of iron: the embodiment of matrimony. She would be pinned, like the museum butterflies. He would remain free to flutter.” WomenFreedomMatrimonyImprisonmentVictorian Age Book:The Gentlemen's Club Source: The Gentlemen's Club
“If I am capable of loving you Lord MacCaulay, of devoting myself to you, it will never be under the terms to which other women submit, for I am battle-born – a female warrior sworn to defy the bonds which enslave those of my sex. I will not, purely to follow common ideas of decency and femininity, give up my enjoyment of other men.” Mademoiselle Noire - The Gentlemen's Club” SexFreedomMarriageFeminismErotic FictionWomen S Lib Book:The Gentlemen's Club Source: The Gentlemen's Club