From Essay XX by Michel de Montaigne (translated by Charles Cotton, Macmillan London 1877).
Quotes about petticoat
A collection of quotes on the topic of petticoat, doing, herring, woman.
Quotes about petticoat
Response to Parliament (October 1566).
Diary of an Unknown (1988)
Quoted in Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women by Bill Adler, p. 94
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25758762M/Dorothy_Parker_Complete_Broadway_1918-1923, Chapter 3: 1920
“For a man petticoat government is the limit of insolence.”
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
What it is, is that I cannot run up a wall!!
From Her Tours and CDs, Revolution Tour
Letter to Elizabeth Cameron (22 January 1899), in J. C. Levinson et al. eds., The Letters of Henry Adams, Volume IV: 1892–1899 (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1988), p. 670
Ballad upon a Wedding. Compare: "Her pretty feet, like snails, did creep A little out, and then, As if they played at bo-peep, Did soon draw in again", Robert Herrick, To Mistress Susanna Southwell.
Other poems
Book IV, ch. 4.
Knickerbocker's History of New York http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13042 (1809)
Source: The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide (2004), P. 19.