# Quote — Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

> She had promised him she would consider his question [of marrying him] [...]. But this was not the case; she was wondering if she were not a cold, hard, priggish person, and, on her at last getting up and going rather quickly back to the house, felt, as she had said to her friend, really frightened at herself.

- Author: [Henry James](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-james.md)
- Book: [The Portrait of a Lady](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-james/the-portrait-of-a-lady.md)
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> What he thought of her she knew, what he was capable of saying to her she had felt; yet they were married, for all that, and marriage meant that a woman should cleave to the man with whom, uttering tremendous vows, she had stood at the altar.

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> She could never rid herself of the sense that unhappiness was a state of disease – of suffering as opposed to doing. To "do" – it hardly mattered what – would therefore be an escape, perhaps in some degree a remedy.

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> Don't mind anything anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

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