Anne Louise Germaine de Staël - Man Quotes

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The entire social order... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

Love, that is but an episode in the life of man, is the entire story of the life of woman.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

Twenty years in the life of a man is sometimes a severe lesson.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

Love is the whole history of a woman's life; it is but an episode in a man's.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

A man must know how to defy opinion; a woman how to submit to it.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

Many a man who has never been able to manage his own fortune, nor his wife, nor his children, has the stupidity to imagine himself capable of managing the affairs of a nation.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

There is always something in a man's success with a woman which is displeasing even to his best friends.

Variant translation: The success of any man, with any woman, is apt to displease even his best friends.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël