Explore "Petty Troubles of Married Life, Part II" by Honoré De Balzac on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Women, and especially married women, stick ideas into their brain-pan precisely as they stick pins into a pincushion, and the devil himself, -- do you mind? -- could not get them out: they reserve to themselves the exclusive right of sticking them in, pulling them out, and sticking them in again.
Caroline is riding home one evening from Madame Foullepointe's in a violent state of jealousy and ambition.