A woman has the age she deserves.
In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?
The fact is external feminine beauty is highly valued, and we are constantly given the message that a slamming body is the most valuable thing a woman can possess.
But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you're worth?
Unpaid work never commands respect; it is the paid worker who has brought to the public mind conviction of woman's worth.
For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl. [Ger., Denn ein wackerer Mann verdient ein begutertes Madchen.]
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man..
