Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
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A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
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It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.
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A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
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