“I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone. Without men, who'd do up the zipper on the back of your dress? ”

“But boys will be boys, even the ones who are only girls dressed up: That's one of the rules of the world.”

“The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.”

“For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks overnight was nothing less than fair game for everybody to nail. Men or women, anybody bent over had no way of knowing who was doing the ram job, and this was the real reason you never wanted to end up here unless you had a family member or a friend who'd stand with you the whole time. To protect you. To watch your ass, for real.”

“Men do, I've found, accept the most errant nonsense from a well dressed woman”

“Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.”