“ the man who pleads his father's authority is no man: the woman who pleads her mother's authority is unfit to bear citizens to a free people. ”
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903). copy citation
| Author | George Bernard Shaw |
|---|---|
| Source | Man and Superman |
| Topic | authority women |
| Date | 1903 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3328/3328-h/3328-h.htm |
Context
“it is the law of revolution, of emancipation, of final supersession of the old and worn-out by the young and capable. I tell you, the first duty of manhood and womanhood is a Declaration of Independence: the man who pleads his father's authority is no man: the woman who pleads her mother's authority is unfit to bear citizens to a free people.
ANN. [watching him with quiet curiosity] I suppose you will go in seriously for politics some day, Jack.
TANNER. [heavily let down] Eh? What? Wh—? [Collecting his scattered wits] What has that got to do with what I have been saying?”
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