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People don’t have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It’s a dreadfully unjust world.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member – male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls’ school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary – prior to marriage.

I see the effects of sexual and gender liberation all around me, just like you do, but I don’t have a sense of being in the majority.

There’s a whole form of literature in India which talks about the quest for the perfect man by a woman, where every woman looks for a perfect man but only ends up with half that.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.