"The domestic career is no more natural..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.”

“What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.”

“An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.”

“At a certain point the family moved to Jaipur, where no woman could avoid the doli or purdah. They kept her in the house from morning to night, either cooking or doing nothing. [My mother] hated doing nothing, she hated to cook. So she became pale and ill, and far from being concerned about her health, my grandfather said, 'Who's going to marry her now?' So my grandmother waited for my grandfather to go out, and then she dressed my mother as a man and let her go out riding with her brothers.”

“I don't feel ashamed to be loud, which is an argument I've had with lots of men, who thought I was too sassy and unladylike.”

“Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.”

“A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.”

“A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.”

“Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.”