George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Women Quotes, Numbers Quotes

During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.

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There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.

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The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.

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You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

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Women are like the arts, forced unto none, Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown.

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American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.

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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man; some think even greater.

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The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.

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Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it.

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When women put their heads together, powerful things can happen!

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If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

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Women's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave.

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A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man's vanity, the novice responds but to one.

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Men are easily dealt with--but when you get the women started, you are in for it, you know.

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And there's a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind, Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay And smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind: I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.

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Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

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Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

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O most delicate fiend! Who is't can read a woman? Is there more?

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Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self.

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