“Every woman is the gift of a world to me.”
Ideas: The Book Le Grand (1826)
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“There is a woman in every case; as soon as they bring me a report, I say, 'Look for the woman.”
Il y a une femme dans toutes les affaires; aussitôt qu'on me fait un rapport, je dis: «Cherchez la femme!»
[Dumas, Alexandre, Alexandre Dumas, père, Théâtre complet, http://www.archive.org/details/thtrecomplet24dumauoft, 2009-08-07, XXIV, 1889, Michel Lévy frères, éditeurs, Paris, French, 103], translation from The Penguin Dictionary of Quotations II.iii
See wikipedia cherchez la femme on how this phrase has come to be used.
Compare Juvenal satire VI.243 (circa 100 AD), "never yet was there a lawsuit which did not have a woman at the bottom of it" (translation by G. G. Ramsay), but in that case describing the litigiousness of Roman women.
Les Mohicans de Paris (The Mohicans of Paris) (1864 play)
Bk. 2, part 5, Ch. 1: The Married Woman, p. 506
The Second Sex (1949)
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 10.
As quoted in "Score another for Armstrong" in VeloNews (22 July 2004)
Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
“Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.”
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Original: La donna è un essere speciale da stimare e rispettare. Un dono esistenziale, da amare ed ammirare.
Source: prevale.net
Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 133