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Girl Quotes - Page 205

Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.287, e-artnow

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Women in the Home"

Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.2104, e-artnow

The more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life.

"How Geena Davis became a champion for women on screen" by Alexandra Spring, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2017.