[11]. The womb is the cause of all the diseases from which women suffer.
[12]. “Love is an episode merely in the life of man; of woman, it is the entire history.” But this epigram of Madame de Staël’s will, to English readers, be more familiar in the form in which it was cast by Byron (Don Juan, canto i, stanza 194):
“Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart;
’Tis woman’s whole existence.”
[13]. On Love.
[14]. “This century will be known as the century of the diseases of the uterus.”
[15]. Half-virgin.
[16]. Beauty of the devil.
[17]. “The cry of the suffering organ comes not from the uterus but from the entire organism.”
[18]. “One for Many. Leaves from the Diary of a Maiden of Vera.”