DougR, if the mistake I made was reading a book, then I've made an awful lot of 'em.

a few more:

Everybody knows how to raise children except the people who have them. -- P.J. O'Rourke.

I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on. -- Josephine Baker

You must understand that this is not a woman's dress I'm wearing. It's a man's dress.
-- David Bowie, on being asked why he wore a dress