Lady Kitty Monologue from The Circle: A Comedy in Three Acts

From The Circle: A Comedy in Three Acts by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

female · philosophical · 59 sec

One says that when one's sure of a man's love, but when one isn't any more--oh, it's so different. In those circumstances one's got to keep a man's love. It's the only thing one has. (ELIZABETH: I'm a human being. I can stand on my own feet.) Have you any money of your own? (ELIZABETH: None.) Then how can you stand on your own feet? You think I'm a silly, frivolous woman, but I've learned something in a bitter school. They can make what laws they like, they can give us the suffrage, but when you come down to bedrock it's the man who pays the piper who calls the tune. Woman will only be the equal of man when she earns her living in the same way that he does.

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