A member of the British Parliament appeared one day at the Gates of Heaven and demanded entry. "Sorry, sir," said the Admitting Angel, "but sexism is a sin, and our records show you to be a Male Chauvinist Pig. There is no room for you here."

"Humph," said the MP, "I suppose you got that nonsense from Maggie Thatcher! I see her over there, gloating at me."

"More bad news, I'm afraid," said the Angel. "That's not Mrs. Thatcher. That's God." (1)

Susan B. Anthony called on editor Horace Greeley one day in 1860 to ask for his newspaper's support for women's suffrage. Greeley was not sympathetic. He was an opponent of women's rights, mainly because he considered women to be of no military value. "What would you do," he asked, "in the event of a civil war?"

"I would do just what you would do…