Lew Alton sighed, cast his eyes ceilingward, and then nodded. When he looked at her again, he seemed both grave and mischievious. "Women!"
"And what does that mean?"
"That females are both the greatest blessing and the greatest curse ever invented."
"Odd. I feel the same way about men - as well as thinking that we ought never have taught them to speak!"

The Shadow Matrix
Marion Zimmer Bradley