“To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle.”
“James tells the crowd that the river is just a few yards from where we stand is all we ever need to believe in. One white woman asks how old James is and I tell her he's seven and she tells me that he's so smart for an Indian boy. James hears this and tells the white woman that she's pretty smart for an old white woman.”
“The codfish lays ten thousand eggs.The homely hen lays one.Codfish never cackles to tell you what she has done.And so we scorn the codfish,while the humble hen we prize,which only goes to show you that it pays to advertise!”
“I talk too much but I don't tell enough.”
“Tell me Jesse, does she sigh when you kiss her too”
“Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.”