The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours by blood or not? All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care. That excessive regard of parents for their own children, and their dislike of other people's, is, like class-feeling, patriotism, save-your-own-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.
Thomas HardyTags: adoption parental-love
The purpose of a chronicler of moods and deeds does not require him to express his personal views upon the grave controversy above given.
Thomas HardyTags: opinion views writer thoughts chronicler
He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his eyes rest on her. I am inclined to think that she don't care for him quite so much as he does for her. She's not a particular warm-hearted creature to my thinking, though she cares for him pretty middling much-- as much as she's able to; and he could make her heart ache a bit if he liked to try--which he's too simple to do.
Thomas HardyTags: unrequited-love trickster fairy charm sue-bridehead
I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books. I have mixed with them--one or two of them particularly-- almost as one of their own sex. I mean I have not felt about them as most women are taught to feel--to be on their guard against attacks on their virtue; for no average man-- no man short of a sensual savage--will molest a woman by day or night, at home or abroad, unless she invites him. Until she says by a look 'Come on' he is always afraid to, and if you never say it, or look it, he never comes.
Thomas HardyTags: fear books men women sex virtue socializing seduction molest
You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.
Thomas HardyTags: girl talk advantages sue-bridehead way-of-speaking
--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man...
Thomas HardyTags: men sex temperament matrimony nerves sensitive ethereal sue-bridehead asexual prude
Perhaps you are making a cat's paw of me with Phillotson all this time. Upon my word it almost seems so--to see you sitting up there so prim.
Thomas HardyTags: trick tool sue-bridehead idom jean-de-la-fontaine
I have sometimes thought--that under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I know!
Thomas HardyTags: woman slave hypocrite sue-bridehead social-code
Always wanting another man than your own.
Thomas HardyBut you shouldn't have let her. That's the only way with these fanciful women that chaw high--innocent or guilty. She'd have come round in time. We all do! Custom does it! It's all the same in the end! However, I think she's fond of her man still--whatever he med be of her. You were too quick about her. I shouldn't have let her go! I should have kept her chained on-- her spirit for kicking would have been broke soon enough! There's nothing like bondage and a stone-deaf taskmaster for taming us women. Besides, you've got the laws on your side. Moses knew.
Thomas HardyTags: husband girl strictness spoiled fanciful
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