Beautiful Quote by Jane Austen

“The loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable - that one false step involves in her endless ruin - that her reputation is…

— Jane Austen

“That loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable-- that one false step involves her in endless ruin-- that her reputation is no less…

— Jane Austen

Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Unhappy as the event must be for Lydia, we may draw from it this useful lesson: that loss of virtue in a female is…

— Jane Austen

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

— Honore de Balzac

... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

— Ninon de L'Enclos

A woman can defend her virtue from men much more easily than she can protect her reputation from women.

— Elbert Hubbard

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Once women have lost her and then found her again, they will contend to keep her for good. Once they have regained her, they…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Every discussion of the status of woman is complicated by the existence of the lady. She overshadows the rest of her sex.

— Emily James Smith Putnam