I love and admire the woman of forty who admits that she is ten years older than her daughter, the woman of fifty who is proud to show me her grandchildren, and does not object to being photographed with them, and the woman of sixty who does not expect me to admire her shoulders at a dinner-party.
Painting, music, and women are often admired or criticised by plucky people who are not afraid of exhibiting their ignorance.
Women are born mothers or sweethearts. When they marry, they become mother-wives and take their children into first consideration, or sweetheart-wives, and bestow their best care and attentions on their husbands. But for the former ones, many clubs would have to put up their shutters.
A woman who is constantly blushing must be terribly well informed.
As long as it is man who proposes, matrimony will be promotion for a woman.