--Women have their particular fancies, and in points of this nature, continued my father, where they bear the whole burden, and suffer so much acute pain for the advantage of our families, and the good of the species, --they claim a right of deciding, _en Souveraines_, in whose hands, and in what fashion, they choose to undergo it.

Women have their fancies, and in these situations they claim a right of deciding in whose hands they shall undergo it.'
