Elizabeth Rapaport

Men and women are equal in love. They are equally vulnerable and equally powerful.

True happiness consists in decreasing the distance between our desires and our powers, in extablishing a perfect equilibrium between power and will.

We wish to inspire the preference we feel; love must be mutual.

If we need another, the terrible possibility remains that their gratification of our need will be withdrawn.

All the intellectual and moral inequalities of the sexes are neutralized by the mutual recognition of the need for love.

The way we love inevitably defeats the ends of love. Defeat in love engulfs our whole personality.