If woman had no existence ...

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man; some think even greater.
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man; some think even greater.
 Virginia Woolf

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
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Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.
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In the 18th century we knew how everything was done, but here I rise through the air, I listen to voices in America, I see men flying- but how is it done? I can't even begin to wonder. So my belief in magic returns.
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