"The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."
― Virginia Woolf
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History
More From Virginia Woolf
- "This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room."
- "Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."
- "Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size."
More In History
- "There aren’t just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It’s our evolutionary history."― James Lovelock
- "Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars."― Aristotle
- "The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil."― Marcus Tullius Cicero