A little of Ms.Austen

Jane Austen …on women & all that we entail …..

'A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. ‘

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

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.’

‘It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her. ‘

‘Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. ‘

‘No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment. ‘

‘Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. ‘