“The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.”

— Honoré de Balzac, book A Woman of Thirty

La sainteté des femmes est inconciliable avec les devoirs et les libertés du monde. Emanciper les femmes, c'est les corrompre.
Source: A Woman of Thirty (1842), Ch. III: At Thirty Years.

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