title: Out of the Mouths of Babes: Quips and Quotes from Wildly Witty Women
author:  Autumn Stephens 
description: Humorous, startling, and irreverent words from wild and wise women fill the pages of Autumn Stephens' latest work. The author of the wildly successful Wild Women series has now collected more than 150 outrageously entertaining quotes from well-known women in their full glory. Quotable quips from legendary icons to present-day superstars, queens to first ladies, politicos to strippers---Out of the Mouths of Babes has them all.
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  “Beatrice? Beatrice?” Mrs. Fenhurst paused, her fork halfway to her mouth.
  “Beatrice is clever?”
  
  
  “I believe so,” Sir Nicholas said, continuing to enjoy his repast. Beatrice
  herself had stopped eating, her face as red as a tomato.
  
  
  “But, what use is it to have a girl who is clever? For she will never need to
  work, or speak in Parliament, or deal with matters of business!”
  
  
  Quite before she knew what she was doing, Mary found herself responding. “Oh,
  but it is wonderful for a female to be clever! We are denounced as the weaker
  sex, and yet many women are scholars, and study the sciences, and literature.
  Some have even written entire books! I believe it to be a myth when people say
  that women’s brains are less capable than men’s.”
  
  
  There was a stunned silence. Belatedly, Mary realized that, in the present
  company, she might as well have tied her garter in public. Mrs. Fenhurst
  looked horrified, Miss Cushing delightedly sho