The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

Crystal Catherine Eastman (June 25 1881 – July 8 1928) was a lawyer antimilitarist feminist socialist and journalist. She is best remembered as a leader in the fight for women's right to vote as a co-editor of the radical arts and politics magazine The Liberator and as a co-founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.