I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you get older you're not so interesting.
“More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions.”
“It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.”