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Ninon de L'Enclos on Women

d. 1705

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A sensible woman never should fall in love without her heart's consent, nor marry without that of her reason.

A woman should never accept a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her judgment.

Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

The desire to please is born in woman before the desire to love.

Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

It is the opinion of men that makes the reputation of women.

Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

A woman is never displeased if we please several other women, provided she is preferred: it is so many more triumphs for her.

Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.

Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

When women have passed thirty, the first thing they forget is their age; when they have attained forty, they have entirely lost the remembrance of it.

Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

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