La vertu des femmes est peut-être une question de tempérament. - Honoré de Balzac

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.