A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor

Oh! what a silly Thing is Woman! How vain, how unreasonable!

A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable.

She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.