“A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.”
Un homme doit savoir braver l'opinion; une femme s'y soumettre.
Delphine (1802), epigraph
The epigraph is taken from the writings of de Staël's mother, Suzanne Necker.
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Un homme doit savoir braver l'opinion; une femme s'y soumettre.
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