In a message dated 1/29/2003 7:42:25 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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> Yikes. the "Ladies" of fame of which you speak are likely the Mount Vernon
> Ladies Association and Pamela Cunningham c.1850s; Without whom the
> "Laddies" might not have discovered a lucrative niche in the "history
> trade" - taken over the field - and relegated those "Ladies" to the docent
> chair.
>
> Signed,
> Not D.A.R.
>
No wasn't it Tolstoy who said: "Regard the society of women as a necessary
unpleasantness, and avoid it whenever possible."