The true woman, for whose ambition a husband’s love and her children’s
education are sufficient, who applies her military instincts to the
discipline of her household, and whose legislatives exercise themselves
in making laws for her nursery; whose intellect has field enough for
her in communion with her husband, and whose heart asks no other honours
than his love and admiration; a woman who does not think it a weakness
to attend to her toilet, and who does not disdain to be beautiful, who
believes in the virtue of glossy hair and well fitting gowns, and who
eschews rents and revelled edges, slipshod shoes and audacious make-ups;
a woman who speaks low, and does not speak much; who is patient and
gentle, and intellectual and industrious; who loves more than she reasons,
and yet does not love blindly; who never scolds and never argues, but
adjusts with a smile; such a woman is the wife we have all dreamed of
once in our lives, and is the mother we still worship in the backwood
distance of the past. – Charles Dickens.
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