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)

No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.

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

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