In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history.

In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history.

The lady ... is not a producer; in most communities productive labor is by consent unladylike. On the other hand she is the heaviest of consumers, and theorists have not been wanting to maintain that the more she spends the better off society is.

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 idle wife ranked with the ornamentally wrought weapon and with the splendid offering to the gods as a measure of the man's power to waste, and therefore his superiority over other men. ... As is the case with any other object of art, her uselessness is her use.

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.