Tag: women

Quotable: Sherlock Holmes

“Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.” –Sherlock Holmes in A Scandal in Bohemia

Overheard: 36 yr old female

“At least you weren’t eating a whole watermelon a day.” From a conversation between two women discussing their cravings during pregnancy.

Overheard: 30 yr old woman

“So everyone smells like a baby’s butt!”

petticoat government

n. A government by women, especially at home. “…instead of being a subject to his Majesty George the Third, he was now a free citizen of the United States. Rip, in fact, was no politician; the changes of states and empires made but little impression on him; but there was one species of despotism under …

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Overheard: 35 yr old woman

“She did a summer at Oxford. In England!”

Overheard: 30 yr old women

WOMAN1: Why don’t you use mascara? WOMAN2: Because I poke myself in the eye.

Rear-view mirror

One of the ways you can tell whether a car belongs to a man or a woman is to look at the rear-view mirror. For a guy, a rear-view mirror is for looking at things behind him, and, just maybe, a parking pass. For a woman, a rear-view mirror is gallery waiting to be populated. …

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Notes

Several years ago I wanted to do something cool for my wife, so I wrote about a dozen little notes, printed them off and folded them neatly. Then I took them around to a dozen of my friends to ask them to deliver them to Heather for me. The idea was akin to having flowers …

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