During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.
George Bernard ShawIt is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.
George Bernard ShawEnglishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
George Bernard Shaw