Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Ambrose BierceIntimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
Elizabeth BowenThe faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
F. Scott FitzgeraldIn spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.
Hugo Claus