Women have only learned to lead one life; they must be all public or all private, there is no medium.

Those who give up the private life for which Providence destined them, to assume the public existence to which their own conceit urges them, have their own reward.

They taste all the bitterness of fame and never know its sweets, because the bitterness is public and the sweets are private.
Women cannot understand that part of a man's life which brings him into daily contact with men whom he does not bring home to dinner.

One woman does not know another without bringing her in to meals and showing her her new hat.

It is merely a matter of custom.