All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.
我为女性所主张的全部特权——这并不值得羡慕,你也不必渴求——就是当生命或希望已经消逝时,仍能爱得最久。
— Jane Austen · Persuasion (1817) —
All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.
我为女性所主张的全部特权——这并不值得羡慕,你也不必渴求——就是当生命或希望已经消逝时,仍能爱得最久。