Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

It is certainly true that housekeeping cares bring with them a thousand endearing compensations. They are a woman’s peculiar joy, and women are apt to be light-hearted.

— Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Are we not like the two volumes of one book?

— Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

… another existence swallowed up in the fearful rush of what is called civilization, but is very like chaos.

— Marceline Desbordes-Valmore