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“An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.”

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French novelist born on May 20, 1799, and died on August 18, 1850. Honore de Balzac is renowned for his profound insight and criticism of 19th-century French society, hailed as the 'father of modern fiction'. more

“One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened.”

Knows Reason Feelings Action Women Know How Happened Crime Illusion Traits Admirable Baseness

Author:Honore de Balzac

“One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.”

Made Desire Women Fine Glory Female Species Continuity Perpetuating

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“When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.”

Women Talking Duty Regard Raises Delight Appearance Storm Captured

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“Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.”

Suffering Women Common Angel

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