I don't tell them this, but it is true nevertheless.

Men should do the work of the world, and they should support women; that is how God intended it, that is according to both nature and religion; any priest will say as much to you." And she, who had defied both God and Nature, wagged her false golden head toward the funeral procession.
"Yet you have been successful.

You have built up a good business.

The work has repaid you." "A woman's work!" She snapped her gouty fingers with a playful gesture.
"Does a woman's work ever repay her?
Think of the pleasures I have missed in my life--the excursions, the theatres, the shows.

All these I might have had if I hadn't shut myself up every day until dark.