"an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her."

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If men pride themselves on the fact that Jesus Christ was born of their sex, the answer is that this was necessary for the sake of decency, for if he had been a woman, it would have been impossible for Jesus to go out at all hours of the day and the night and mingle with the crowds to convert them and to help and save mankind, without creating a scandal.

— Marie de Gournay