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Famous Madame de Stael Quotes
“Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?”
“Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men.”
“When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.”
“The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.”
“I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.”
“The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.”
“Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.”
“Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.”
“The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.”
“The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.”
“A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.”
“Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.”