"Home is the girl's prison and the..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.
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“It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.”
“Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.”
“Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.”
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“If a woman has "It," she doesn't need anything else; but if she doesn't have "It," it doesn't matter what else she has.”
“Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.”
“I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.”
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“Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color”
“It must be confessed that horses at present work too exclusively for men, rarely men for horses; and the brute degenerates in man's society.”
“And in fact you're not like everyone else: you weren't ashamed just now to confess bad and even ridiculous things about yourself. Who would confess such things nowadays? No one, and people have even stopped feeling any need for self-judgment.”