It's just plain fear of being a coward." "You will admit then that I understand the wonderful male animal which struts on two legs and rules all the other animals of the world, eh?
It is the only animal in the whole big world zat--that is completely satisfied with itself.

So now, Mr.Percivail, you have the secret of the so-called courage of the male of our species." "I hope all women haven't gone into the subject so deeply," he said, with a rueful smile.

"You make rather small potatoes of us." "Ah, do not say that," she cried, "for, alas, I am denied potatoes." "Well, then," he said, laughing, "if all women understood us as well as you do, we wouldn't rule the world very much longer.

They'd yank us off the pedestal and revile us forevermore." "But you do not understand women, my friend.

Did we not bring you into the world?
Are you not our sons, and therefore begotten to be kings?
We may despise our husbands, we may loathe our brothers and our fathers, we women, but our sons are the gods we worship.