At 9:01 PM 96.1.16 -0500, [log in to unmask] wrote: >Seeking the source and exact wording of Twain quote: > >"A woman preaching is like a dog walking on its hind legs...[don't know the >rest of the quote or whether it is indeed a Twain quote]. > >Thanks, >Barb This is quoted by Myra Jehlen in "Gender" in _Critical Terms for Literary Study_ eds. Frank Lentricchia & Thomas McLaughlin (U of Chicago P, 1990) She discusses Mark Twain here. This may be the reason Twain and Boswell are mixed up.