Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women … - Euripides

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Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women
Are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum,
We have bought a husband, we must then accept him as
Possessor of our body. This is to aggravate
Wrong with worse wrong. Then the great question: will the man
We get be bad or good? For women, divorce is not
Respectable; to repel the man, not possible.

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Euripides (Greek: Εὐριπίδης; c. 480 BC–406 BC) was a Greek playwright.

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Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a husband, we must then accept him as possessor of our body.

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The man who would prefer great wealth or strength more than love, more than friends, is diseased of soul.

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Try refusing the arrangement, or later petition for divorce — the first is impossible while the second is like admitting you're a whore.

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