Nine out of ten are tortured intolerably during the first period of maturity, and afterward provided they do not marry at the age of twenty.

That is what we are unwilling to see, but those who have eyes see it all the same.

And even the majority of these unfortunate creatures are so excited by a hidden sensuality (and it is lucky if it is hidden) that they are fit for nothing.

They become animated only in the presence of men.

Their whole life is spent in preparations for coquetry, or in coquetry itself.