Certain women because of their female power and seductiveness could bring destruction to a family.

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.

Tall, elegant, vital, scornful. A man like that could rock a woman to her very core.

Every man is a bachelor out of his wife's sight!

Women were the very devil, at the mercy of their frail strength.

Women weren't to be trusted. Or forgiven. Men weren't to be trusted either. Not a woman alive would dispute that.

Woman magic. A quality that could bring great joy or havoc or both in equal measure.