“It must be confessed, that in the actions of women, there is always a little coquetry, and that the greater part of their very virtues are mixed with the desire of pleasing, and of being surrounded by friends, whose attachment to them is heightened by the feeling of obligation.”
Excerpt From: Madame de Staël. “Ten Years' Exile / Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness De Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself, during the Years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, by Her Son.” iBooks.
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That was the view some two hundred years ago. And it lasted very many years towards the present. How do today's female candidates for 2016 fit that rather nice picture? - oh, come on, that has nothing to do with the male camp!
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