Margery monologue (Act 3) — The New Woman: An Original Comedy, in Four Acts

That's what I do remember! [_Murmurs continue._] I am Gerald's wife! That's what she doesn't forgive me! [_Addressing MRS. SYLVESTER._] You call yourself a New Woman--you're not New at all. You're just as old as Eve. You only want one thing--the one thing every woman wants--the one thing that no woman's life's worth living without! A true man's love! Ah, if we all had that, there'd be no problem of the sexes then. I had it once. Heaven help me, I have lost it! I've done my best--it isn't much, but it's the best I can. I give it up! If you have robbed me of his love, my own is left to me; and if the future's yours, the past is mine. He loved me once, and I shall love him always!