“I do not think any man would ever treat a woman as his equal, and it is all I ask because I know my worth.”

— Berthe Morisot

from a long unpublished notebook of Berthe Morisot, 1890; as cited in Berthe Morisot, Jean-Dominique Rey; translation in English, Flammarion, S.A. (ISBN: 978-2-08-020345-8), Paris, 2010, 2016, p. 14
1881 - 1895

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