While reading this thread, a ghastly
song popped into my head. It was from
the fifties (I'm up in years). It was from
a musical called "Silk Stockings" and this song,
"Without Love", was one of the big hits from the show.

Here goes:

"Without love, what is a woman?
A treasure unemployed,
Without love, what is a woman?
A zero in the void,
But with love, what is a woman?
Serene contentment, the perfect wife,
For a woman to a man is just a woman,
But a man to a woman is her life."

Aghhhh! Young girls believed this drivel
in the 50's. (A common question was,
"Are you going to college for your
BA or your MRS?".)