I was more at home in my father's world... did not trap you with innocent questions to make fun of you. Ladies seemed to live in faint horror of men, seemed unwilling to approve wholeheartedly of them. But I liked them... there was something about them that I instinctively liked... they weren't-- "Hypocrites..." page number

One of the questions related is;

Why does Scout prefer men in To Kill a Mockingbird?

Explanation:

The lines quoted in question statement have been taken from To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee. It is from Chapter 4.

These lines are from Scout Finch, a lady who lives with her brother, Jem, and her father, Atticus. She has spent most of her time with male members of family and hadnt kept much girl friends. This paragarph also strengthens her reasoning for admiring men as she belived they were not hypocrites

what is the question you are trying to ask here

  this riddles' answer is library.

  the "leaves" are a reference to the books' pages that the library contains; the branches are a network of libraries that connect multiple libraries' collections, resources, and items in a system of a common database, integrating them; the branches' organization are a useful management tool for coordinating the multiple collections many libraries have.