The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.
Honore de BalzacA naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
Honore de BalzacOld maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
Honore de Balzac