Woman magic. A quality that could bring great joy or havoc or both in equal measure.
There are more good women in the world than there are men worthy of them!
Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality.
Certain women because of their female power and seductiveness could bring destruction to a family.
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.