"Is she pretty?"

"She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do.
It is the secret of their charm."

"Why can't these American women stay in their own country?
They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women."

"It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively
anxious to get out of it,"

OSCAR WILDE. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY