Quotation from: The Strength of the Strong

Written by: Jack London

"But you are an old woman to be doing this man's work, and a strong
man's work at that," I insisted.

Again she seemed to immerse herself in that atmosphere of
contemplative eternity, and so strangely did it affect me that I
should not have been surprised to have awaked a century or so later
and found her just beginning to enunciate her reply--