Hoo boy . . . You better hope Dixie, Bobbin or Shari doesn't show up . . . they'll tell you a thing or two about women and running woodstoves.
On a serious note . . . and I am being serious here . . . running a woodstove is not something that is the exclusive domain of guys . . . although many guys tend to like fire . . . probably goes back to when we were young, setting fires and peeing the bed (a myth by the way) . . . but honestly, you don't need to have that extra appendage to be able to capably run a stove . . . women have been tending fires for a very, very long time . . . and surprise, surprise they didn't burn down the little house on the prairie or the cave. Truth be told, my wife runs the stove better than me . . . sometimes . . . but I won't admit that in public . . . well most of the time I won't admit that in public.
That said . . . I can't speak to the Quad, but the Oslo is wicked easy to use and run . . . providing you have good seasoned wood. Thermometers on the stove and on the stove pipe helps a lot when you're a newbie burner . . . getting the fundamentals down in terms of "Do"s and "Don't"s is good (i.e. do make sure your temp is up to X before slowly cutting back the air and don't allow the temp to get above Y) can be helpful . . . and once those fundamentals are down pat it's a pretty simple thing to run the stove . . . load, bring the temp up to X, slowly cut back on the air and at a certain point you'll find the secondary combustion is sustained . . . then you just sit back and enjoy the show for a few hours before repeating the process.