Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist, esteem is the first demand that they make of love. - Honoré de Balzac (A Woman of Thirty Quotes)

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist, esteem is the first demand that they make of love.[Les femmes tiennent et doivent toutes tenir à être honorées, car sans l’estime elles n’existent plus. Aussi est-ce le premier sentiment qu’elles demandent à l’amour.]

Source:(Gebbie Publishing Co, ed. 1898), Chapter III. At Thirty Years, Page 109
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