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"Most often women want happiness and men want wilderness."

"When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women."

"And a woman by herself is missing a man, while a man by himself is his own master. Trousers. That's the secret. Trousers and a pair of socks. I never dreamed it was like this. Put on trousers and the world changes. We walk different. We act different. I see these girls and I think: Idiot's Get yourself some trousers!"

"When women agree with me I always do the other thing."

"Women most often have a difficult enemy and she is a woman and not a man."

"What a hundred caring, courageous and conscientious women can achieve in ten years, would take a thousand men a hundred years."

"Sarra looked at her daughter and said reproachfully, "Speaking of war, I never raised you to be always fighting and killing. That's not woman's work.""It's needful, Ma. You taught me a woman has to know how to defend herself.""I never!" gasped Sarra, indignant."You taught me when you were murdered in your own house," Daine said quietly."

"Can you be a girl for a few seconds?""I'm always a girl" I frown."You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girl"I twirl my hair around my finger. "Kay."
Explore more quotes by George Bernard Shaw

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."

"The fickleness of the woman I love is equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."

"He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."

"An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it."

"When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity."

"I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people."

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."
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