Cette citation est attribuée à Jean de La Bruyère, probablement tirée de ses 'Caractères' (1688), œuvre majeure de la littérature morale française du XVIIe siècle.
"Women need only remember their origin, and without boasting too much of their delicacy, consider after all that they come from a superfluous bone where there was no beauty except that which God chose to put there."