Note 12 — THE SEXUAL LIFE OF WOMAN.

“Love is an episode merely in the life of man; of woman, it is the entire history.” But this epigram of Madame de Staël’s will, to English readers, be more familiar in the form in which it was cast by Byron (Don Juan, canto i, stanza 194):

“Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart;

’Tis woman’s whole existence.”