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RESPECT IS NECESSARY IN MARRIAGE



When a viper is love struck
it vomits venom
and hisses loudly to the eel.
Yet it longs for its mate.
The greatest respect is owed
by spouses to each other.
 

 

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, ed. and trans., Selected Writings of Christine de Pisan

 

Peggy Knapp, Time-Bound Words: Semantic and Social Economies from Chaucer's England to Shakespeare's