"Married woman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and you would not have been ignorant of the fact, if your greed for money had not made you forget to question me. You believe yourself an illegitimate child. Wilkie, you are mistaken. You are my legitimate child. I am a married woman——" ...
— Baron Trigault's Vengeance - Volume 2 (of 2) • Emile Gaboriau
... by married women; and Swift's tone with respect to the stories, combined with his obvious respect for Mrs. Barton, may make any one lean to the supposition that he believed himself to be talking to a married woman. ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 210, November 5, 1853 • Various
... from the point of view of the pupils this is desirable. Mrs Humphrey Ward is not the only opponent of women's suffrage to state that the atmosphere of girls' schools suffers from the preponderating spinster element. Suffragists may for once join hands with her and urge that the married woman is in some ways better suited for young people than her unmarried colleague.[8] Often the most valuable years of a woman's life are lost to the school by her enforced retirement at marriage. She gives to ...
— Women Workers in Seven Professions • Edith J. Morley
... the married woman make use of her husband's name, she has no claim to his titles; so that while others may address her as "Mrs. Judge So and So," "Mrs. Dr. So and So," she must carefully avoid all such display. Let ...
— Social Life - or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society • Maud C. Cooke
... was off, and the blood was spouting on the ground, a married woman, who had no children, came forward very eagerly out of the crowd, to smear herself with it,—the application of criminals' blood being considered a very favourable medicine for women afflicted with barrenness,—so she indulged in ...
— Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo • William Makepeace Thackeray
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