Colette

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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Colette was the pen name of the French novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (January 28 1873 – August 3 1954). She is best known, at least in the English-speaking world, for her novel Gigi, which provided the plot for a Lerner & Loewe musical film and stage musical. Colette was born in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, Yonne, in the Burgundy Region of France, the daughter of Jules-Joseph Colette and Adèle Eugénie Sidonie Landoy ('Sido'). In 1893 she married Henri Gauthier-Villars, a famous wit known as 'Willy', who was 15 years her senior. Her first books, the Claudine series, were published under the pen name of her husband, 'Willy', writer, music critic, "literary charlatan and degenerate",. Claudine still has the power to charm; in belle epoque France it was downright shocking, much to Willy's satisfaction and profit. In 1906 she left the unfaithful Gauthier-Villars, living for a time at the home of the American writer and salonist Natalie Barney. The two had a short affair, and... full article at wikipedia

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Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?

It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut -- Animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph... Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?

Girls usually have a paper m‚chÈ face on their wedding day.

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

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Aug 3, 1954

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Gigi	May 15, 1958
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