Excerpt from Woman in Epigram: Flashes of Wit, Wisdom, and Satire From World's Literature
For centuries the mute stone face of the Sphinx - the accepted symbol of the unknown, the mysterious - has looked out over the wilderness; and generations have puzzled their brains over her riddle. But conjecture has been unavailing; the secret of the strange creation of Egyptian fancy is undetermined.
Woman is the enigma of the ages, - the world's sphinx. Men always have been, are, and ever will be guessers of her secret; but after centuries of thought, all one finds is a mass of contradictory statements, which one may liken to the sands that have been worn from the dumb sentinel of the desert. Woman is to-day unknown, a creature for surmise and speculation, - what Amiel has been pleased to call the "monster incomprehensible."
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