Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.
Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.
Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.
The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.