Thus:
"A woman is seldom as old as she looks.
"A woman is never as old as she says.
"No woman is just the age she would like to be.
"A woman is rarely as old or as young as the one man that counts would
have her be.
"Few women are ever of the age that a particular situation requires.
"No woman is as old as her dearest woman friends say she is."
How all these opposites can be equally true, I will not undertake to
explain. It is probably inherent in the very nature of the subject. The
French, a people wise in experience, knew what they were about when they
laid it down that if you have a mystery to solve, you must look for the
woman. What they meant was, that, having found a woman, you may make any
statements you please about her; the world will accept them
unquestioningly and your puzzle will consequently be solved.
Sometimes, however, it has seemed to me that a possible reason for this
very curious fact may be found in the established fashion of speaking
about men as individuals and about women as a class and a type. And that
class or type we saddle with all the faults and virtues of all its
individual members.
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