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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

So that would be a classic mixed message to young women: you should look a certain way that’s going to destroy your reproductive system and your sexual appetite, but at the same time, you should be interested in sex!

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.