Anyone who calls you "little lady" has already excluded you from the set of people worth listening to.

“There's this thing, they have in french: L'espirit d'escalier. The spirit of th…”

“She smiled up at him, a nervous, crooked smile in a dead face.”

“Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.”

“There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay th…”