Gender

• "We've several hundred young women here y'knew, and they keep changing"#
• "cheap labour"
• "used her for the end of a stupid, drunken evening"
• "as if she were an animal, a thing, not a person"
• "you are being like a hysterical child"
• "soft, brown hair" and "big, dark eyes"; "fresh" and "young"
•  "hard- eyed, dough faced women"
• "I left them talking about clothes again... women are potty about 'em"
• 'Mother says we mustn't stay too long. But I don't think it matters'
• 'I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty'
• 'she wasn't the usual sort'
• "Alderman Meggarty- 'half drunk and goggle-eyed... wedged her into a corner"
• "You think women ought to be protected from unpleasant and disturbing things?"
• "Nothing to do with you, Sheila. Run along."
• "...not only something to make 'em look prettier" 
• "Oh - Gerald - you've got it - is it the one you wanted me to have?"
• stage directions about inspector - "need not be a big man but he creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness"
• Mrs Birling - "when you're married you'll realise that men with important work to do sometimes have to spend nearly all their time and energy on their business. You'll have to get used to that, just as I did"
• Mrs Birling - "I think Sheilla and I had better go into the drawing room and leave you men"
• Mrs Birling - "husband who'd deserted her"
• Sheila - "It's wonderful!...Mummy -isn't it a beauty?"
• Sheila - "was the right type for it, just as I was the wrong type. She was a very pretty girl too [...] if she’d been some miserable plain little creature, I don’t suppose I’d have done it,”
• Sheila - “Why - you fool - he knows. Of course he knows”
• Sheila - “I want to understand exactly what happens when a man says he’s so busy at the works that he can hardly ever find time to come and see the girl he’s supposed to be in love with,”
• Mr Birling - “Your engagement to Sheila means a tremendous lot to me. She’ll make you happy, and I’m sure you’ll make her happy,”
• Mr Birling - “I’m not defending him. But you must understand that a lot of young men -”
• Mr Birling - “Clothes mean something quite different to a woman. Not just something to wear - and not only something to make ‘em look prettier - but - well, a sort of sign or token of their self-respect,”
• Mr Birling - “She was a lively good-looking girl - country-bred, I fancy,”
• Mr Birling - “There isn’t the slightest reason why my daughter should be dragged into this unpleasant business,”
• Eric -“I hate these fat old tarts round the town,”
• Eric - “pretty and a good sport”
• Inspector - “just used her for the end of a stupid drunken evening, as if she was an animal, a thing, not a person,”
• Eric - “was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty,”
• Gerald - "She’s had a long, exciting and tiring day - we were celebrating our engagement, you know - and now she’s obviously had about as much as she can stand,”
• Gerald - “young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things”
• Gerald - “hate those hard-eyed dough-faced women”
• Gerald - “young and pretty and warm-hearted - and intensely grateful,”