Painterly gold wedding ring on folded blank cream paper beneath delicate white lace.

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Lady Nancy Astor

I married beneath me. All women do.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker says she married someone beneath her, then declares that all women do the same. The second sentence changes a personal judgement into a sweeping joke about husbands' inferiority to their wives. Its wit depends on delivering that provocative generalisation as a matter of fact.

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