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Stendhal on Women

1783–1842 France

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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

De L'Amour (On Love) (1822)

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth!

La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma) (1839)

In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.

De L'Amour (On Love) (1822)

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