Sons and Lovers - Daimon Club

"What do you want, then?"
"I want to do something. I want a chance like anybody else.
Why should 1, because I'm a girl, be kept at home and not allowed
to be anything? What chance HAVE I?"
"Chance of what?"
"Of knowing anything--of learning, of doing anything.
It's not fair, because I'm a woman."
She seemed very bitter. Paul wondered. In his own home Annie
was almost glad to be a girl. She had not so much responsibility;
things were lighter for her. She never wanted to be other than a girl.
But Miriam almost fiercely wished she were a man. And yet she hated
men at the same time.
"But it's as well to be a woman as a man," he said, frowning.