These words were spoken in 1899 to Frobenius, an anthropologist, and
quoted by C.G. Jung in his book "Essays on a Science of Mythology".

"How can a man know what a woman's life is? A woman's life is
quite different from a man's. God has ordered it so. A man is the
same from the time of his circumcision to the time of his
withering. He is the same before he has sought out a woman for the
first time, and afterwards. But the day when a woman enjoys her
first love, cuts her in two. She becomes another woman on that
day. The man is the same after his first love as he was before.
The woman is from the day of her first love, another. That
continues so all through life. The man spends a night by a woman
and goes away. His life and body are always the same. The woman
conceives. As a mother, she is a person other than the woman
without child. She carries the fruit of the night for nine months
in her body. Something grows. Something grows into her life that
never again departs from it. She is a mother. She is and remains a
mother even though her child dies, even though all her children
die. For at one time she carried the child under her heart. And it
does not go out of her heart ever again. Not even when it is dead.
All this the man does not know; he knows nothing. He does not know
the difference before love and after love, before motherhood and
after motherhood. He can know nothing. Only a woman can know and
speak of that. That is why we wont be told what to do by our
husbands. A woman can only do one thing. She can respect herself.
She can keep herself decent. She must always be as her nature is.
She must always be maiden and always be mother. Before every love,
she is a maiden, and after every love she is a mother. In this you
can see whether she is a good woman or not."