Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Woman
  • Sex
  • Hearts