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Quotes from Preface to The Marquise & Pauline — George Sand

1804–1876 France

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one should always judge youth leniently. Certainly it would be unfair to pass dogmatic judgment upon what is spontaneous and consequently naïve.

Preface to The Marquise & Pauline (1861)

The author of these novellas has never had a system as to the priority of one sex over the other. He has always believed in the perfect natural equality between the sexes which is in no way altered by the diversity of their functions, since each sex finds its superiority in exercising the function that nature and Providence have accorded it.

Preface to The Marquise & Pauline (1861)

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