“But love,” Valda insisted, ... “should be free.”
“If it is, Nature didn’t make it so. Automatically the end of loving ties up with it those who love and the unborn.
“No sooner do we begin upon it than we enter upon certainties of effecting the happiness of the one who loves with us, and the potential third. It is so little free, that we can neither go out of it nor into it on the mere invitation, nor abate by saying so one of the widening circles of its disaster. Whether for better or worse, love is irrevocably tied to its consequences.”
By Mme. de Girardin
It is not easy to be a widow; one must resume all the modesty of girlhood without being allowed even to feign ignorance.
By Comtesse d’ Houdetot
I have seen more than one woman drown her honor in the clear water of diamonds.
By De Maintenon
Before marriage woman is a queen; after marriage, a subject.