Quotation by Colette

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?
Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873–1954), French author. repr. in Earthly Paradise, pt. 4, "The South of France," ed. Robert Phelps (1966). Break of Day (1961).

Full name: Sidonie Gabrielle Colette.
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