From Robert L. Short's dedication of The Parables of Peanuts:
For My Own Sweet Ellen Kay . . . of whom Professor Barth must have been thinking when he wrote,
"If there is a way of bringing man to repentance, it is the way of the woman who refuses to let herself be corrupted and made disobedient by his disobedience, but who in spite of his disobedience maintains her place in the order all the more firmly . . ."