Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality.
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.
Tall, elegant, vital, scornful. A man like that could rock a woman to her very core.
Men-what arrogance! That was the worst of them. Forget the sexual hold they had on you. They would never liberate women at all.
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.