"The history of most women is hidden..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
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“You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight.”
“For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.”
“The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.”
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“The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.”
“It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.”
“Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.”
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“Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?”
“It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded.”
“My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.”