George Bernard Shaw - Women Quotes

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The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

George Bernard Shaw
Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

George Bernard Shaw
Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.

George Bernard Shaw
Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

George Bernard Shaw
The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.

George Bernard Shaw
It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

George Bernard Shaw
If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.

George Bernard Shaw
Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

George Bernard Shaw
All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

George Bernard Shaw
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.

George Bernard Shaw
The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw
If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

George Bernard Shaw
When men and women pick one another up for just a bit of fun, they find they've picked up more than they bargained for, because men and women have a top story as well as a ground floor, and you can't have the one without the other.

George Bernard Shaw
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.

George Bernard Shaw
Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves, and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

George Bernard Shaw
I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.

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The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

George Bernard Shaw