“When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.”
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël book Corinne
Bk. 6, ch. 3
Corinne (1807)
“Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.”
— Julian Barnes, book Flaubert's Parrot
Source: Flaubert's Parrot
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