I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.


J. Austen, Persuasion (1818), Complete works Kindle edition, location 29717
(read March 2011)