Darwin may have been quite correct in his theory that man descended from the apes of the forest, but surely woman rose from the frothy sea, as resplendent as Aphrodite on her scalloped chariot.

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The playwright and actor George Bernard Shaw was one of the most colourful and outspoken humorists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In this quote, quoted in his book "Laughing Boy," Shaw's references to Darwin and the primacy of women in the evolutionary process is a clever and witty poke at those who believe in "scientific" explanations of human behavior.

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1. Darwin may have been quite correct in his theory that man descended from the apes of the forest, but surely woman rose from the frothy sea, as resplendent as Aphrodite on her scalloped chariot.

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