There is one common condition for the lot of women in Western civilization and all other civilizations that we know about for certain, and that is, woman as a sex is disliked and persecuted, while as an individual she is liked, loved, and even, with reasonable luck, sometimes worshipped.
March 16, 1983. Retrieved September 18 2014.

Speech to the Fabian Society (1928) "Dame Rebecca West Dies in London", The New York Times