AUSTEN, Jane. Persuasion

 ‘Perhaps I shall. – Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove any thing.’

AUSTEN, Jane. Persuasion

‘Yes. We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.’

AUSTEN, Jane. Persuasion

Henrietta and Louisa, young girls of nineteen and twenty, who had brought from a school at Exeter all the usual stock of accomplishments, and were now, like thousands of other young ladies, living to be fashionable, happy and merry.

BARBERY, Muriel. A elegância do ouriço

O que é uma aristocrata? É uma mulher a quem a vulgaridade não atinge, embora esteja cercada por esta.