“The Eternal Feminine draws us on.”
Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.
Act V, Heaven, last line
Faust, Part 2 (1832)
“She succumbed to the eternal feminine passion for bargains.”
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Georgette Heyer
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