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

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

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

Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and unashamed on behalf of her offspring.

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

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.

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