““Alex decided the stakes were high enough to justify one of his advanced psychological theories. He knew all women liked cats. People liked things that resembled themselves. Therefore applying some of the rules for interacting with cats to the reality of interacting with women could only help. Most rules were straightforward: • Admire their grace. • Don’t interrupt them when they’re grooming. • Back off if they hiss.””
![“Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to a good man, they say[.]” quote by Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f0d/virginia-woolf-49_cats_kind-old-ladies-assure-us-that-cats-are_2382711.jpg)
![“The appeal of the cat lies in the very fact that she has formed no close bond with [man], that she has the uncompromising independence of a tiger or a leopard while she is hunting in his stables and barns: that she still remains mysterious and remote when she is rubbing herself gently against the…” quote by Konrad Lorenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d58/konrad-lorenz-8538_appeals_the-appeal-of-the-cat-lies-in-the-very-f_901013.jpg)
