• Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935). “The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography”, p.328, Univ of Wisconsin Press