Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain.
Honore de BalzacAn ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.
Honore de BalzacAll genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.
Honore de Balzac