The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed. -Edna O'Brien.

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed. -Edna O'Brien.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.

It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand read more

The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.

She was not a women likely to settle for equality when sex gave her an advantage.

She was not a women likely to settle for equality when sex gave her an advantage.