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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A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

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Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

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I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

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Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.

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In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.

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... women are the pivot round which the world turns.

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Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin--or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation!

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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.

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England produces under favorable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world. And, as the men are affectionate and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them.

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I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.

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Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.

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Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

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Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.

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There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

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Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.

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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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The desire which a man has for a woman is not directed towards her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman ; that she is a human being is of no concern to the man; only her sex is the object of his desires.

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A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.

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