Ésa es natural condición de mujeres — dijo don Quijote — : desdeñar a quien las quiere y amar a quien las aborrece. - Miguel de Cervantes

"Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned (books), just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease."

Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

...but once more I say do as you please, for we women are born to this burden of being obedient to our husbands, though they be blockheads