• Women know no perfect love: Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong; Man clings because the being whom he loves Is weak and needs him.

    George Eliot: Women know no perfect love:
Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong;
Man clings because the being whom he loves
Is weak and needs him.
    George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.459