The history of the life of women is an episode in that of men.[Also known as:]Love is the whole history of a woman’s life; it is an episode in a man’s.[L’amour est l’histoire de la vie des femmes; c’est un épisode dans celle des hommes.]
Source:A Treatise on the Influence of the Passions (ed. George Cawthorn, 1798), Section I, Chapter IV, Page 146