Here is a collection of Shaw's piquant opinions on the subjects of woman and her rights, love, marriage, sexual relations, the family, children, and other matters which the readers of this magazine will be interested to see.

It is well known of Bernard Shaw that woman was not a strong factor in his life, although she was a fundamental factor in his art. That is because he sought her with his imagination far more than his bodily desires sought her.

And yet he was the cynosure of women's eyes, especially the women of the thinking and upper classes in England. He had numerous love stories and romances, which this is not the place to recount. The well-known political writer Beatrice Webb, wife of the thinker Sidney Webb, declared that she was confident that she alone of all

Two things Shaw never repented of: his birthplace and his choice of a wife.

In the picture, the young couple before marriage bound them together.

women could stand firm against Shaw's seduction! And she added that Shaw inclined toward women not out of love for them, but to draw from his connections with them material for his plays...

On woman's political right:

Shaw once declared: "If one of the two halves of society, its men or its women, must take over the direction of affairs alone, I vote that the women take it."

Apropos of granting woman the right of suffrage he said: "Many people were annoyed with me when I gave my opinion that granting woman the vote would not lead to a single woman reaching Parliament, but rather would lead to her being kept out of it even if the men voted for her."

And he added: "Consider the cowardice that would seize men if it fell to them to bear children! Women are a class that stands a rank above the class of men. The pity is only that woman refuses to vote for a woman, and prefers to cast her ballot for a man unworthy of the office rather than for a capable woman."

On love and marriage

Shaw said to a friend of his in the course of talk about love, marriage, and the relation between them: "So it is right that two lovers should marry! For my part, I have loved a woman or two; but had I thought of living

Mutual admiration: the director Gabriel Pascal presents the actress Vivien Leigh to Shaw.