A mother who is really a mother is never free.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.

When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.

The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be read more

The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.