We spoil the dispositions nature has given to women ; we neglect their education, fill their minds with nothing solid, and destine them solely to please, and to please only by their graces or their vices.


Wiki translation based on that of Amelia Gere Mason, The Women of the French Salons; New York: The Century Co., 1891. p. 142 - New Reflections on Women, 1727

Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles Quotes

We spoil the dispositions nature has given to women ; we neglect their education, fill their minds with nothing solid, and destine them solely to...

We spoil the dispositions nature has given to women ; we neglect their education, fill their minds with nothing solid, and destine them solely to...

We spoil the dispositions nature has given to women ; we neglect their education, fill their minds with nothing solid, and destine them solely to...

We spoil the dispositions nature has given to women ; we neglect their education, fill their minds with nothing solid, and destine them solely to...