Quotes from Jules Michelet

England is an empire, Germany is a nation, a race, France is a person.

The silences of history must be made to speak [Il faut faire parler les silences de l'histoire].

Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.

Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much.

The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.

Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions