George Sand - Woman Quotes

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No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood.

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Deliberately, women are given a deplorable education.... While man frees himself from constraining civil and religious bonds, he is only too glad to have woman hold tightly to the Christian principle of suffering and keeping her silence.

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Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her.

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There is only one sex. A man and a woman are so entirely the same thing that one can scarcely understand the subtle reasons for sex distinctions with which our minds are filled.

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A woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.

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When a woman invokes her reason, it is a sure sign that she will listen to her heart.

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A woman can not guarantee her heart, even though her husband be the greatest and most perfect of men.

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