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href="https://bg.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD_%D0%B4%D1%8C%D0%BE_%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB" title="Ан дьо Стал – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Ан дьо Стал" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anne_Louise_Germaine_de_Sta%C3%ABl" title="Anne Louise Germaine de Staël – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Anne Louise Germaine de Staël" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikiquote.org/wiki/Madame_de_Sta%C3%ABl" title="Madame de Staël – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Madame de Staël" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Germaine_de_Sta%C3%ABl" title="Germaine de Staël – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Germaine de Staël" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikiquote.org/wiki/Madame_de_Sta%C3%ABl" title="Madame de Staël – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Madame de Staël" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikiquote.org/wiki/Madamo_de_Sta%C3%ABl" title="Madamo de Staël – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Madamo de Staël" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" 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title="Evil">evil</a> arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further <a href="/wiki/Progress" title="Progress">progress</a> in that very improvement.</b> <b>Either <a href="/wiki/Morality" title="Morality">morality</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Fable" class="mw-redirect" title="Fable">fable</a>, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.</b> <ul><li><i>The Influence of Literature upon Society</i> (<i>De la littérature considérée dans ses rapports avec les institutions sociales</i>, 1800), Pt. 2, ch. 4</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>If we would <a href="/wiki/Succeed" class="mw-redirect" title="Succeed">succeed</a> in works of the <a href="/wiki/Imagination" title="Imagination">imagination</a>, we must offer a mild <a href="/wiki/Morality" title="Morality">morality</a> in the midst of rigid <a href="/wiki/Manners" title="Manners">manners</a>; but where the manners are <a href="/wiki/Corrupt" class="mw-redirect" title="Corrupt">corrupt</a>, we must consistently hold up to view an austere morality.</b> <ul><li><i>The Influence of Literature upon Society</i> (1800), Pt. 2, ch. 5</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>One must, in one's <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>, make a <a href="/wiki/Choice" title="Choice">choice</a> between <a href="/wiki/Boredom" title="Boredom">boredom</a> and <a href="/wiki/Suffering" title="Suffering">suffering</a>.</b> <ul><li>Letter to Claude Hochet (Summer 1800), quoted in J. Christopher Herold, <i>Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël</i> (New York: Grove Press, 1958), p. 223</li> <li>Herold comments: "Her decision was emphatically in favor of suffering, which after all was a <a href="/wiki/Pleasure" title="Pleasure">pleasure</a> compared to boredom." (p. 224)</li> <li>The actual quotation is from a letter from Mme de Staël to Claude Hochet dated October 1, 1800 : «Il faut choisir dans la vie entre l’ennui et le tourment : je donne l’un et l’hiver l’autre» (Germaine de Staël, <i>Correspondance générale. Tome IV. Première partie. Du directoire au Consulat. 1er décembre 1796-15 décembre 1800</i>, texte établi et présenté par Béatrice W. Jasinski, Paris, Chez Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1976, xii/337 p., p. 326).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Un homme doit savoir braver l'opinion; une femme s'y soumettre.</i> <ul><li>A man must know how to fly in the face of <a href="/wiki/Opinion" title="Opinion">opinion</a>; a woman to submit to it.</li> <li><i>Delphine</i> (1802), epigraph</li> <li>The epigraph is taken from the writings of de Staël's mother, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Curchod" class="extiw" title="w:Suzanne Curchod">Suzanne Necker</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable <a href="/wiki/Truths" class="mw-redirect" title="Truths">truths</a> than the <a href="/wiki/Fictions" class="mw-redirect" title="Fictions">fictions</a> based on those truths; and that the best lessons of delicacy and <a href="/wiki/Self" title="Self">self</a>-<a href="/wiki/Respect" title="Respect">respect</a> are to be found in novels where the feelings are so naturally portrayed that you fancy you are witnessing real <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a> as you read.</b> <ul><li><i>Delphine</i> (1802), Preface</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>In matters of the <a href="/wiki/Heart" title="Heart">heart</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nothing" class="mw-redirect" title="Nothing">nothing</a> is true except the improbable.</b> <ul><li>Letter to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliette_R%C3%A9camier" class="extiw" title="w:Juliette Récamier">Juliette Récamier</a> (October 5, 1810), quoted in J. Christopher Herold, <i>Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël</i> (New York: Grove Press, 1958), p. 401</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Superstition" title="Superstition">Superstition</a> attaches to this <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religion</a> to the next; superstition is allied to <a href="/wiki/Fatality" class="mw-redirect" title="Fatality">fatality</a>, and religion to <a href="/wiki/Virtue" title="Virtue">virtue</a>; it is from the <a href="/wiki/Vivacity" class="mw-redirect" title="Vivacity">vivacity</a> of earthly <a href="/wiki/Desires" class="mw-redirect" title="Desires">desires</a> that we become superstitious, and it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these same desires that we are religious.</b> <ul><li><i>Ten Years' Exile</i> (<i>Dix années d'exil</i>, written 1810–1813, posthumously published 1821), ch. 16</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Life often seems like a long shipwreck, of which the débris are friendship, fame, and love.</b> <ul><li><i>Reflections on Suicide</i> (<i>Réflexions sur le suicide</i>, 1813), Section 1</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Madame de Staël thought it was <a href="/wiki/Pride" title="Pride">pride</a> in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the <a href="/wiki/Secret" class="mw-redirect" title="Secret">secret</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Universe" title="Universe">universe</a>; and speaking of the higher <a href="/wiki/Metaphysics" title="Metaphysics">metaphysics</a> she said: "I prefer <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">the Lord's</a> <a href="/wiki/Prayer" title="Prayer">Prayer</a> to it all." <ul><li><i>Sketch of the Life, Character, and Writings of Baroness de Staël-Holstein</i> (1820) by Albertine-Adrienne Necker de Saussure, p. 349; often misquoted as, "I desire no other evidence of the truth of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer."</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Sow <a href="/wiki/Good" class="mw-redirect" title="Good">good</a> services: sweet <a href="/wiki/Remembrances" class="mw-redirect" title="Remembrances">remembrances</a> will <a href="/wiki/Grow" class="mw-redirect" title="Grow">grow</a> from them.</b> <ul><li>Quoted in <i>A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness</i> (1880) collected and translated by J. D. Finod, p. 138</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Men do not <a href="/wiki/Change" title="Change">change</a>; they unmask themselves.</b> <ul><li>Quoted in <i>Invasion of the Party Snatchers : How the Holy-Rollers and the Neo-Cons Destroyed the GOP</i> (2008) by Victor Gold</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Corinne_(1807)"><span id="Corinne_.281807.29"></span><i>Corinne</i> (1807)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anne_Louise_Germaine_de_Sta%C3%ABl&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Corinne (1807)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Canova-Psyche_Revived_By_Cupids_Kiss_detail_arm_framing.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Canova-Psyche_Revived_By_Cupids_Kiss_detail_arm_framing.jpg/220px-Canova-Psyche_Revived_By_Cupids_Kiss_detail_arm_framing.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Canova-Psyche_Revived_By_Cupids_Kiss_detail_arm_framing.jpg/330px-Canova-Psyche_Revived_By_Cupids_Kiss_detail_arm_framing.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Canova-Psyche_Revived_By_Cupids_Kiss_detail_arm_framing.jpg/440px-Canova-Psyche_Revived_By_Cupids_Kiss_detail_arm_framing.jpg 2x" data-file-width="864" data-file-height="1152" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">Love</a> is the emblem of <a href="/wiki/Eternity" title="Eternity">eternity</a>; it confounds all notion of <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a>; effaces all <a href="/wiki/Memory" title="Memory">memory</a> of a <a href="/wiki/Beginning" class="mw-redirect" title="Beginning">beginning</a>, all <a href="/wiki/Fear" title="Fear">fear</a> of an <a href="/wiki/End" title="End">end</a>.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its <a href="/wiki/Power" title="Power">power</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thought" title="Thought">thought</a> of its originality, and sentiment of its depth.</b> <ul><li>Bk. 1, ch. 3</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Tout ce qui est naturel est varié.</i> <ul><li><b>All that is natural is varied</b>.</li> <li>Bk. 1, ch. 4</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.</b> <ul><li>Bk. 4, ch. 3</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>You do not reach the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sublime_(philosophy)" class="extiw" title="w:sublime (philosophy)">sublime</a> by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.</b> <ul><li>Bk. 4, ch. 3</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>La vue d'un tel monument est comme une musique continuelle et fixée, qui vous attend pour vous faire du bien quand vous vous en approchez.</i> <ul><li><b>The <a href="/wiki/Sight" class="mw-redirect" title="Sight">sight</a> of such a <a href="/wiki/Monument" class="mw-redirect" title="Monument">monument</a> is like continual and stationary <a href="/wiki/Music" title="Music">music</a>, which one hears for one's <a href="/wiki/Good" class="mw-redirect" title="Good">good</a> as one approaches it.</b></li> <li>Bk. 4, ch. 3</li> <li>The idea that "<a href="/wiki/Architecture" title="Architecture">architecture</a> is frozen music" — an aphorism of disputed origin sometimes misattributed to de Staël — is found in a number of German writers of the period.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.</b> <ul><li>Bk. 6, ch. 3</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Genius" title="Genius">Genius</a> is essentially <a href="/wiki/Creative" class="mw-redirect" title="Creative">creative</a>; it bears the stamp of the <a href="/wiki/Individual" class="mw-redirect" title="Individual">individual</a> who possesses it.</b> <ul><li>Bk. 7, ch. 1</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">Love</a> is the emblem of <a href="/wiki/Eternity" title="Eternity">eternity</a>; it confounds all notion of <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a>; effaces all <a href="/wiki/Memory" title="Memory">memory</a> of a <a href="/wiki/Beginning" class="mw-redirect" title="Beginning">beginning</a>, all <a href="/wiki/Fear" title="Fear">fear</a> of an <a href="/wiki/End" title="End">end</a>: we fancy that we have always possessed what we love, so difficult is it to imagine how we could have lived without it.</b> <ul><li>Bk. 8, ch. 2, as translated by Isabel Hill (1833)</li> <li>Variant translation: <b>It is certainly through <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a> that <a href="/wiki/Eternity" title="Eternity">eternity</a> can be understood; it confuses all thoughts about <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a>; it destroys the ideas of <a href="/wiki/Beginning" class="mw-redirect" title="Beginning">beginning</a> and <a href="/wiki/End" title="End">end</a>; one thinks one has always been in love with the person one loves, so difficult is it to conceive that one could live without him.</b> <ul><li>As translated by Sylvia Raphael (1998)</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.</b> <ul><li>Bk. 8, ch. 2</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Let us then blend everything: <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a>, <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religion</a>, <a href="/wiki/Genius" title="Genius">genius</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">sunshine</a>, perfume, <a href="/wiki/Music" title="Music">music</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Poetry" title="Poetry">poetry</a>.</b> <ul><li>Bk. 10, ch. 5</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Atheism" title="Atheism">Atheism</a> exists only in coldness, <a href="/wiki/Selfishness" title="Selfishness">selfishness</a>, and baseness.</b> <ul><li>Bk. 10, ch. 5</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>A <a href="/wiki/Religious" class="mw-redirect" title="Religious">religious</a> <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a> is a struggle and not a <a href="/wiki/Hymn" title="Hymn">hymn</a>.</b> <ul><li>Bk. 10, ch. 5</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Danger" title="Danger">Danger</a> is like <a href="/wiki/Wine" title="Wine">wine</a>, it goes to your head.</b> <ul><li>Bk. 12, ch. 2</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>O <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a>! all bathed with <a href="/wiki/Blood" title="Blood">blood</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tears" title="Tears">tears</a>, yet never <br /> Hast thou ceased putting forth thy <a href="/wiki/Fruit" title="Fruit">fruit</a> and <a href="/wiki/Flowers" title="Flowers">flowers</a>.</b> <ul><li>Bk. 13, ch. 4, as translated by <a href="/wiki/Letitia_Elizabeth_Landon" title="Letitia Elizabeth Landon">Letitia Elizabeth Landon</a> for Isabel Hill (1833)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?</b> <ul><li>Bk. 14, ch. 1</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Tout comprendre rend très-indulgent.</i> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Understanding" title="Understanding">Understanding</a> <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">everything</a> makes one very indulgent.</b></li> <li>Bk. 18, ch. 5</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Be <a href="/wiki/Happy" class="mw-redirect" title="Happy">happy</a>, but be so by <a href="/wiki/Piety" title="Piety">piety</a>.</b> <ul><li>Bk. 20, ch. 3</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="De_l’Allemagne_[Germany]_(1813)"><span id="De_l.E2.80.99Allemagne_.5BGermany.5D_.281813.29"></span><i>De l’Allemagne</i> [<i>Germany</i>] (1813)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anne_Louise_Germaine_de_Sta%C3%ABl&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: De l’Allemagne [Germany] (1813)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Innocence" title="Innocence">Innocence</a> in <a href="/wiki/Genius" title="Genius">genius</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Candor" title="Candor">candor</a> in <a href="/wiki/Power" title="Power">power</a>, are both <a href="/wiki/Noble" class="mw-redirect" title="Noble">noble</a> <a href="/wiki/Qualities" class="mw-redirect" title="Qualities">qualities</a>.</b> <ul><li>Pt. 2, ch. 8</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is perhaps too much freedom in <a href="/wiki/Protestantism" title="Protestantism">Protestantism</a> to satisfy a certain religious austerity, which may seize upon the man who is overwhelmed by great misfortunes; sometimes even in the habitual course of life, the reality of this world disappears all at once, and we feel ourselves in the middle of its interests as we should <b>at a ball, where we did not hear the <a href="/wiki/Music" title="Music">music</a>; the <a href="/wiki/Dancing" class="mw-redirect" title="Dancing">dancing</a> that we saw there would appear insane.</b> <ul><li>Pt. 3, ch. 3, often paraphrased as <i>And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.</i><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/06/05/dance-insane/">[1]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>L'esprit consiste à connaître la ressemblance des choses diverses et la différence des choses semblables.</i> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wit" title="Wit">Wit</a> lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.</b></li> <li>Pt. 3, ch. 8</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>La voix de la conscience est si délicate, qu'il est facile d'étouffer; mais elle est si pure, qu'il est impossible de la méconnaître.</i> <ul><li><b>The <a href="/wiki/Voice" title="Voice">voice</a> of <a href="/wiki/Conscience" title="Conscience">conscience</a> is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.</b></li> <li>Pt. 3, ch. 13</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>La religion n'est rien si elle n'est pas tout, si l'existence n'en est pas remplie.</i> <ul><li>Religion is nothing, if it is not everything; if existence is not filled with it.</li> <li>Pt. 4, ch. 1</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>L'admiration pour le beau se rapporte toujours à la Divinité.</i> <ul><li>The admiration of the beautiful always has relation to the Divinity.</li> <li>Pt. 4, ch. 1</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>La recherche de la vérité est la plus noble des occupations, et sa publication un devoir.</i> <ul><li><b>The search for the <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a> is the <a href="/wiki/Noblest" class="mw-redirect" title="Noblest">noblest</a> of occupations, and its publication a <a href="/wiki/Duty" title="Duty">duty</a>.</b></li> <li>Pt. 4, ch. 2</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Ces règles ne sont que des barrières pour empêcher les enfants de tomber.</i> <ul><li><b>The <a href="/wiki/Rules" title="Rules">rules</a> are only barriers to keep <a href="/wiki/Children" title="Children">children</a> from falling.</b></li> <li>Pt. 4, ch. 9</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Le sens de ce mot, chez les Grecs, en est la plus noble définition: l'enthousiasme signifie</i> <b> <i>Dieu en nous</i> </b>. <ul><li><b>The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies <i>God in us</i>.</b></li> <li>Pt. 4, ch. 10</li></ul></li></ul> <p><br /></p><div style="padding: .5em; border: 1px solid black; background-color: #FCFCCC;"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Disputed">Disputed</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anne_Louise_Germaine_de_Sta%C3%ABl&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Disputed"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Desire" title="Desire">desire</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Man" title="Man">man</a> is for the <a href="/wiki/Woman" class="mw-redirect" title="Woman">woman</a>, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man. <ul><li>Sometimes published as an anonymous saying, this was attributed to Bishop <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Wilberforce" class="extiw" title="w:Samuel Wilberforce">Samuel Wilberforce</a> in <i>Is It Nothing To You? Social Purity, A Grave Moral Question</i> (1884) by Henry Rowley, p. 88; to <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge" title="Samuel Taylor Coleridge">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a> in "Would You Be Re-elected", <i>Munsey's Magazine</i> (April 1909), p. 769; and to de Staël in <i>Aspects of Western Civilization : Problems and Sources in History</i> (2003), p. 294</li></ul></li></ul> </div> <p><br /></p><div style="padding: .5em; border: 1px solid black; background-color: #FFE7CC;"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Misattributed">Misattributed</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anne_Louise_Germaine_de_Sta%C3%ABl&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Misattributed"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">human</a> <a href="/wiki/Mind" title="Mind">mind</a> always makes <a href="/wiki/Progress" title="Progress">progress</a>, but it is a progress in spirals. <ul><li>Probably a paraphrase of this line from <i>De l’Allemagne</i>, Pt. 3. ch. 10. "Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of <a href="/wiki/Sagacity" class="mw-redirect" title="Sagacity">sagacity</a>: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line." Not known from <a href="/wiki/Goethe" class="mw-redirect" title="Goethe">Goethe</a>'s works.</li></ul></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes_about_de_Staël"><span id="Quotes_about_de_Sta.C3.ABl"></span>Quotes about de Staël</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anne_Louise_Germaine_de_Sta%C3%ABl&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Quotes about de Staël"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Feminist literary critics have shown how in the 19th century women writers began to acknowledge women as their muses and their role models...<a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning" title="Elizabeth Barrett Browning">Elizabeth Barrett Browning</a> admired the work of <a href="/wiki/George_Sand" title="George Sand">George Sand</a> and Mme. de Staël, while her work, in its turn, was an inspiration to <a href="/wiki/Emily_Dickinson" title="Emily Dickinson">Emily Dickinson</a>. <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Fuller" title="Margaret Fuller">Margaret Fuller</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Orne_Jewett" title="Sarah Orne Jewett">Sarah Orne Jewett</a> acknowledged their indebtedness to Mme. de Staël, the author of <i>Corinne</i>...The list could be indefinitely extended to show the almost desperate search of writing women for authoritative female predecessors. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gerda_Lerner" title="Gerda Lerner">Gerda Lerner</a> <i>The Creation of Feminist Consciousness</i> (1993)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anne_Louise_Germaine_de_Sta%C3%ABl&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="noprint" style="clear: right; border: solid #aaa 1px; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; 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