A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
...there must be something she wanted; and that therefore she was no lady.
Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.
I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that. You want to grow up to be a lady, don't you?' I said not particularly.
The society of women is the element of good manners.
