“Bless the ladies and their charming inconsistency! They demand to be treated like men, but they react like women.”

“..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females...and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.”

“The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.”

“A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.”

“I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.”

“You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats.""It is an engaging quality, Emerson.""That depends," said Emerson darkly, "on how he likes them.”

“Peculiar or not, it is my idea of pleasure. Why, why else do you lead this life you don't enjoy it? Don't talk of duty to me; you men always have some high-sounding excuse for indulging yourselves. You go gallivanting over the earth, climbing mountains, looking for the sources of the Nile; and expect women to sit dully at home embroidering. I embroider very badly. I think I would excavate rather well. ”