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“Elle ne demandait qu'à s'appuyer sur quelque chose plus solide que l'amour.”
― Gustave Flaubert , Madame Bovary

“But how could he have, when women themselves had suddenly gone insane, were rejecting the direction, the protection, that their menfolk offered them, were recklessly plunging off on their own into unknown and unspeakable depths?”
― Olive Senior, Arrival of the Snake-Woman and Other Stories

“Non, mon père, dit-il. Je me fais une autre idée de l'amour. Et je refuserai jusqu'à la mort d'aimer cette création où des enfants sont torturés.”
― Albert Camus

“I forced myself to think rationally, something that is conveniently omitted from the upbringing of us women (otherwise my God how we would change the world!)”
― Olive Senior, Arrival of the Snake-Woman and Other Stories