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We have medicines to make women speak; we have none to make them keep silence.

— Anatole France

Nous avons des remèdes pour faire parler les femmes; nous n'en avons pas pour les faire taire.

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Notes from Wikiquote

La Comédie de celui qui épousa une femme muette [The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife] (1912), Act II, sc. iv

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