George Bernard Shaw - Woman Quotes

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They have redeemed themselves from their vileness, and turned away from their sins. Best of all, they are still not satisfied: the impulse I gave them in that day when I sundered myself in twain and launched Man and Woman on the earth still urges them: after passing a million goals they press on to the goal of redemption from the flesh, to the vortex freed from matter, to the whirlpool in pure intelligence that, when the world began, was a whirlpool in pure force.

George Bernard Shaw
Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

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Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

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Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.

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If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.

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Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.

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I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.

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I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.

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I am a woman of the world, Hector; and I can assure you that if you will only take the trouble always to do the perfectly correct thing, and to say the perfectly correct thing, you can do just what you like.

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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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Liza: My aunt died of influenza: so they said … But it's my belief (as how) they done the old woman in.

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Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

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That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her.

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A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

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A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.

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It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

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Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

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It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.

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I can wait: waiting and patience mean nothing to the eternal. I gave the woman the greatest of gifts: curiosity. By that her seed has been saved from my wrath; for I also am curious; and I have waited always to see what they will do tomorrow.

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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

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My way hither was the way of destiny; for I am he of whose genius you are the symbol: part brute, part woman, and part God — nothing of man in me at all. Have I read your riddle, Sphinx?

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Perhaps woman's art is of woman's life a thing apart, 'tis man's whole existence; just as love is said to be the reverse — though it isn't.

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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. Anybody can behave well when things are going smoothly.

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Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

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He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.

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Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life whilst men have had to devote themselves to death; and that makes a vital difference in male and female religion. Women have been forced to fear whilst men have been forced to dare: the heroism of a woman is to nurse and protect life, and of a man to destroy it and court death.

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Woman: You have the greatest brain in the world, and I have the most beautiful body; so we ought to produce the most perfect child
Shaw: What if the child inherits my body and your brains?

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The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

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