The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
Source: The Valleys of the Assassins, ch. 2, 1934.
-- Freya Stark, (Jan 31 1893-1993), French-English explorer, travel writer; She marched alone into the Middle East from Persia to Yemen, discovering lost cities and creating an anti-Nazi intelligence system along the way.