“The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.”

“Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.”

“It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly. ”

“A woman's love for a man is half animal passion and half hate. The more a woman loves a man, the more she hates him.”

“For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.”

“Do you know why a woman is attracted to a man? Because she is uniquely created and different from a man.”