i have been delayed in starting "the once and future sex" by @DrEleanorJanega because i'm reading baudolino. decided to take an umberto break-o and was rewarded with the kind of glorious sentence hoped-for:

"Whatever problems we may have with women now, we don't generally agree that they are so sex-crazed and heretical that when left to their own devices they will start a brothel with a nice little side racket in magical herbs. Clearly some things have changed."