"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
"A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart."
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Source: A Daughter of Eve. Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.
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