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Isn't there a Jane Austen quote that goes something like: Everyone knows a bachelor with an inheritance is in need of a wife.

• AnimalMuppet 4y ago
  "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Opening line of Pride and Prejudice.
• quadcore 4y ago
  "A woman loyalty is tested when a man has nothing. A man loyalty is tested when he has everything."
  • lazyeye 4y ago
    Or to paraphrase Chris Rock:- In a good neighbourhood the women dont have jobs. In a bad neighbourhood it's the men that don't have jobs.
    • debacle 4y ago
      That's a great way to paraphrase this. A little chauvinistic, but he got slapped I'll cut him a break.
    • belter 4y ago
      To still paraphrase Chris Rock: Beyonce could still marry Jay-Z, even if she was working at McDonald's...Now Jay-Z by the contrary....
      • toyg 4y ago
        But, but, have you seen She's out of my league?!? Just kidding, of course - that movie works precisely because it upends well-accepted norms so thoroughly. Likely wouldn't work the other way around.
  • AnimalMuppet 4y ago
    Interesting. Who said it?
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• watwut 4y ago
  I mean, in a society where all financial security of a woman is from man and she has no real way of getting independent income, this sort of thinking actually makes sense.