We spoil the dispositions nature has given to women; we neglect their education, fill their minds with nothing solid, and destine them solely to please, and to please only by their graces or their vices. (Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert)

We spoil the dispositions nature has given to women; we neglect their education, fill their minds with nothing solid, and destine them solely to please, and to please only by their graces or their vices.

Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert

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