Jane Austen Woman Quotations

There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.

She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage.

A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.