The cat required far less attendance than a human child, which is one of the reasons why spinster ladies prefer felines to babies.

Elizabeth Peters
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  1. I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)

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

  3. Everything has happened before - not once, but over and over again. We may not be able to solve our problems through what are pompously called "the lessons of history, " but at least we should be able to recognize the issues and perhaps avoid...

  4. Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

  5. Any man with a grain of sense knows that marriage is the only way, these days, to acquire a full-time maid who works twenty-five hours a day, with no time off and no pay except room and board. (p9)

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