"Learned women are ridiculed because they put..." - Quote by George Sand

“Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it.”

“Anything we destroy in ourselves we destroy in others. Our falls lower others and throw them down; we owe it to our fellows to keep upright, in order that they too may keep their feet.”

“One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.”

“Even women are perfect at the outset.”

“Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.”

“I think I try to speak to the heart of the woman who I know is interested in growing into herself.”

“A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.”

“Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.”

“They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.”