Quotation
“In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin - consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged.”
Elizabeth Hardwick
The idea behind the quotation
The quote suggests that wives expect emotional consideration as payment, but men often see giving it as an excessive and unfair cost.