Women weren't to be trusted. Or forgiven. Men weren't to be trusted either. Not a woman alive would dispute that.
Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality.
Tall, elegant, vital, scornful. A man like that could rock a woman to her very core.
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.
There are more good women in the world than there are men worthy of them!