Honoré de Balzac Quote

Every woman carries in the depths of her soul a mysterious weapon, instinct — that virgin instinct, incorruptible, which requires her neither to learn, to reason, nor to know, which binds the strong will of man, dominates his sovereign reason, and pales our little scientific tapers.


A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1886)


Every woman carries in the depths of her soul a mysterious weapon, instinct — that virgin instinct, incorruptible, which requires her neither to...

Every woman carries in the depths of her soul a mysterious weapon, instinct — that virgin instinct, incorruptible, which requires her neither to...

Every woman carries in the depths of her soul a mysterious weapon, instinct — that virgin instinct, incorruptible, which requires her neither to...

Every woman carries in the depths of her soul a mysterious weapon, instinct — that virgin instinct, incorruptible, which requires her neither to...