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Madame de Stael

writer, salonnière, diarist, literary critic, politician, correspondent, philosopher

1766  – 1817

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a prominent philosopher, woman of letters, and political theorist in both Parisian and Genevan intellectual circles. She was the daughter of banker and French finance minister Jacques Necker and Suzanne Curchod, a respected salonist and writer. Throughout her life, she held a moderate stance during the tumultuous periods of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era, persisting until the time of the French Restoration.

All Quotes by Madame de Stael

“We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.”
— Madame de Stael
“In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.”
— Madame de Stael
“Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.”
— Madame de Stael
“We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love”
— Madame de Stael
“Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.”
— Madame de Stael
“The more I see of men the more I like dogs.”
— Madame de Stael