Honore de Balzac’s novel “The Minor Misfortunes of Married Life,” which tells about family everyday life, was written in 1846 and belongs to his cycle “The Human Comedy.”
“The most Jesuit-like Jesuit, a thousand times less Jesuit than the least-Jesuit woman—judge for yourself to what extent Jesuit women! They’re such Jesuits that even the cleverest Jesuit wouldn’t guess how far a woman’s Jesuitism can go, because there are many ways to be a Jesuit—and a woman is so skilled at it that she can Jesuit without showing that she is a Jesuit.”