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The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.
(George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. (1891). The Quintessence of Ibsenism, "The Womanly Woman," The Drama Observed, ed. Bernard F. Dukore, Penn State Press (1993).)
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At all events, as she, Ulster, cannot have the status quo, nothing remains for her but complete union or the most extreme form of Home Rule; that is, separation from both England and Ireland.
(George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. New Statesman (London, June 7, 1913).)
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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.
(George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. (First produced, in German, 1913). Henry Higgins, in Pygmalion, act 2, The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces, vol. 4, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1972).)
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Don't be so ready to defy everybody. Act as if you expected to have your own way, not as if you expected to be ordered about. The way to get on as a lady is the same as the way to get on as a servant: you've got to know your place.
(George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. (First produced 1894). Nicola, in Arms and the Man, act 3, The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces, vol. 1, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1970).)
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Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.
(George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. (1891). The Quintessence of Ibsenism, "The Two Pioneers," The Drama Observed, ed. Bernard F. Dukore, Penn State Press (1993).)
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There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder.
(George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. (First produced 1905). Andrew Undershaft, in Major Barbara, act 2, The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces, vol. 3, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1971).)
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There is not one Christian rule for solicitors and another for saints. Their hearts are alike; and their way of salvation is along the same road.
(George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. (First produced 1908). Father Soames, in Getting Married, The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces, vol. 3, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1971).)
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