Some of the "New Women" writers will some day start an idea that men and women should be allowed to see each other asleep before proposing or accepting. But I suppose the New Woman won’t condescend in future to accept; she will do the proposing herself. And a nice job she will make of it, too! There’s some consolation in that.
– Bram Stoker
Dracula, Chapter 8. Mina, watching Lucy sleeping and speaking about the New Woman movement, suggests that one day women will propose marriage to men.