an odd mood...

Furthermore, not only is every woman a miser, but she is also envious and a slanderer of other women, greedy, a slave to her belly, inconsistent, fickle in her speech, disobedient and impatient of restraint, spotted with the sin of pride and desirous of vainglory, a liar, a drunkard, a babbler, no keeper of secrets, too much given to wantonness, prone to every evil, and never loving any man in her heart.

- From 'The Art of Courtly Love' by Andreas Capellanus, written sometime between 1174 and 1186