The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's. [Fr., L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
The only equitable manner in my opinion, of judging the character of a man is to examine if there are personal calculations… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents? — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive? — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not… — Madame de Stael Copy Share
There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself. — Madame de Stael Copy Share
in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to… — Madame de Stael Copy Share
[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It… — Madame de Stael Copy Share
Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents? — Madame de Stael Copy Share
The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live. — Madame de Stael Copy Share
Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry. — Madame de Stael Copy Share
A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life. — Madame de Stael Copy Share
However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom. — Madame de Stael Copy Share
The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it. — Madame de Stael Copy Share
If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share
“The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress made in spirals.” — Madame de Stael Copy Share
![“Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's. [Fr., L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes; c'est un episode dans celle des hommes.]” quote by Madame de Stael](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e0e/madame-de-stael-2069_amour_love-is-the-history-of-a-woman-s-life-it_1733361.jpg)
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