The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.

  • -- Arthur Helps 赫尔普斯

家主能败坏全家的喜乐,却是不能。这是女人的特权,也是她最大的特权。

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I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.

我认为女性只是有一种做汤的原始本能,她们会把这种本能强加给任何看起来有可能成为候选人的人。

That was what it meant to be a woman: to live in an unbearable agony hidden for a time behind smoke and mirrors.

这就是作为一个女人的意义:生活在难以忍受的痛苦中,在烟雾和镜子后面隐藏一段时间。