At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

P.g. Wodehouse
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In his autobiography, "My Life and Battles," Winston Churchill said, "At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies." In the modern world, the way women carry themselves has evolved considerably from a time long ago. But, as Churchill implies, it doesn't take much to make a woman "a woman of the world" at that age.

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