Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed that woman's road to gentility would lie through doing nothing at all.

Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed that woman's road to gentility would lie through doing nothing at all.

As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance.

The lady ... is an anomaly to which the western nations of this planet have grown accustomed but which would require a great deal of explanation before a Martian could understand her.

The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored social class.

Every discussion of the status of woman is complicated by the existence of the lady. She overshadows the rest of her sex.

the true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife.