"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."

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We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority and a wife's submission, holding strongly to the 'master-in-my-own-house theory,' thinking much of the details of home arrangements, precise, methodical, easily angered and with difficulty appeased.

— Annie Besant