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“Here it is wished, as elsewhere, that women possess merit and virtue. But nature would have had to make them thus, for the upbringing they are given is in such opposition to the goal proposed that it appears to me to be the great masterpiece of French inconsequence.”
― Françoise de Graffigny, Letters Written by a Peruvian Princess: Translated From the French

“The pleasure of being - a forgotten pleasure not even known to so many blind humans - that thought so sweet, that happiness so pure, "I am, I live, I exist," could bring happiness all by itself if one remembered it, if one enjoyed it, if one treasured it as befits its worth.”
― Françoise de Graffigny, Letters Written by a Peruvian Princess: Translated From the French