A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.

Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.