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Alais

“Lady Carenza, I'd like to have a husband, but making babies I think is a huge penitence: your breasts hang way down and it's too anguishing to be a wife.”
- Alais,
- 12th cent., in Magda Bodin, The Women Troubadours (1976)

Alais, French troubadour, nun

(12th cent.)