Cat Bascle

“Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!”
― C. J. Cherryh

“Marie clasped her hands together and looked vulnerable. Payne flinched. “The only time you don’t tell me something is when you think it’s dangerous, because being a fragile, sheltered noblewoman, I might faint at the thought of experiencing physical harm like a common person.”

She sighed, and seemingly from nowhere, produced an enormous cast-iron frying pan easily one hundred centimeters in diameter. “And then,” she said sadly, “I have to damage one of the good pans by smacking it against your thick, common skull until you tell me—”
― Phil Foglio, Agatha H and the Clockwork Princess

“She's a smart girl, so she doesn't trust you, but she obviously likes you.”
― Phil Foglio, Agatha Heterodyne and the Chapel of Bones

“A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women