If you must go flopping yourself down, flop in favour of your husband and child, and not in opposition to'em.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
  Jerry Cruncher.  A  Tale of  Two Cities, bk.2, ch.1.

No woman has to prove herself a woman in the grim way a man has to prove himself a man. He must perform, or the show does not go on. Social convention is irrelevant. A flop is a flop.

-Pagels, Heinz R(udolf)
  Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, ch.1,'Sex andViolence, or Nature and Art'.

   I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop But if baby I'm the bottom, you're the top.

-Porter, Cole
  'You're theTop', from the show Anything Goes.

Yes, always keep the Classics at hand to prevent flop.

-Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia ne¤  e Stephen
  Diary entry, 23 Jun.