Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors. Dictionnaire philosophique (1764)
All the reasoning of man is not worth one sentiment of woman. Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Society depends upon women. The nations who confine them are unsociable. Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
God created woman only to tame man. Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)