Anne Louise Germaine de Staël - Woman 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
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
Love is the whole history of a woman's life; it is but an episode in a man's.
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
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
