"I'm afraid I'm not very good at understanding things like that." "You say that, but what you really mean is: 'I don't want to understand things like… - John Wyndham

"We ourselves have a tradition of taking beatings, and then winning wars," said Bocker.

In the profession of wifehood the exams begin at the church door—and there is never a final degree.

You know perfectly well that women can and do - or rather did - handle the most complicated and delicate machines when they took the trouble to understand them. What generally happens is that they're too lazy to take the trouble unless they have to.