There is a woman in every case; as soon as they bring me a report, I say, 'Look for the woman'.

translation from The Penguin Dictionary of Quotations II.iii | Compare Juvenal satire VI.243 (circa 100 AD), "never yet was there a lawsuit which did not have a woman at the bottom of it" (translation by G. G. Ramsay), but in that case describing the litigiousness of Roman women.