Women weren't to be trusted. Or forgiven. Men weren't to be trusted either. Not a woman alive would dispute that.
Every man is a bachelor out of his wife's sight!
There are more good women in the world than there are men worthy of them!
Woman magic. A quality that could bring great joy or havoc or both in equal measure.
Women were the very devil, at the mercy of their frail strength.
The nicest men in the world were horribly cruel. They took no great pleasure from it, it was just part of being a male, with a perpetual deep gulf between the sexes.