George Eliot‘s parents knew she would be a novelist. Because as a child, she was a tomeboy.
battle of the sexes
Don’t joke about Hillary Clinton and PMS – she’s the Secretory of State!
Hear about the conductor who got in trouble for slapping a woman’s bass at a party? He was flouting etiquette, acting like a bassoon, so she cried, “Oboe you don’t! I’m not your sax partner!”