Natasha, in her lilac silk dress trimmed with black lace walked, as women can walk, with the more repose and stateliness the greater the pain and shame in her soul.

La esposa del jan era débil, estúpida e insolente, como suelen ser todas las mujeres a quienes no dirige un hombre

If our husbands didn’t talk to us, we should see the facts as they are.

women are the pivot on which everything turns!

Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and agonies of the soul, but all the time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and will always be, the tragedy of the bedroom.

- but are you really so in love?- Oh, it is not that at all. It is not that, it is some kind of power that has seized me and holds me. I do not know what to do.

Woman, don't you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it's always perfectly new.

I’ve never seen exquisite fallen beings, and I never shall see them, but such creatures as that painted Frenchwoman at the counter with the ringlets are vermin to my mind, and all fallen women are the same.’ ‘But the Magdalen?’ ‘Ah, drop that! Christ would never have said those words if He had known how they would be abused. Of all the Gospel those words are the only ones remembered.

...and if one loves, one loves the whole person as he or she is, and not as one might wish them to be.