"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
"Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them."
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Source: A Daughter of Eve. Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.
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