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Émile Zola on Women

1840–1902 France

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7 quotes

This woman was as necessary to his life as eating and drinking.

Thérèse Raquin (1867)

Both women, looking different ways, kept shrugging their shoulders, and asking themselves how the deuce the other could tell such woppers!

Nana (1880)

The nature of the circumstances seemed to have made this woman for this man, and to have thrust one towards the other.

Thérèse Raquin (1867)

All of a sudden, in the good-natured child the woman stood revealed, a disturbing woman with all the impulsive madness of her sex, opening the gates of the unknown world of desire. Nana was still smiling, but with the deadly smile of a man-eater.

Nana (1880)

"You know, they’ll have their revenge."
"Who will?"
"The women, of course."

Au Bonheur des Dames (1883)

You know, I'm disgusted when dirty little boys run after old women.

Nana (1880)

Madame Jules was a woman of no age. She had the parchment skin and changeless features peculiar to old maids whom no one ever knew in their younger years.

Nana (1880)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Émile Zola (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.