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

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

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

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

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

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