Sarah Bernhardt Quotes

The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the province ofwoman: the desire to please, facility to express emotions and hide defects, and the faculty of assimilation which is the real essence of woman.

Sarah Bernhardt

• Real
• Art
• Desire
• Acting
• Emotion
• Dramatic
• Feminine

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  • Real
  • Art
  • Desire