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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason...more

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Flinging himself from his horse, he made, in his rage, as if he would breast the flood. Standing knee-deep in water he hurled at the faithless woman a...more

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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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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through ...more

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Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

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Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these – ‘Chloe liked Olivia…’ Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our ...more

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... All who have brought about a state of sex-consciousness are to blame, and it is they who drive me, when I want to stretch my faculties on a book, ...more

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She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine ...

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What is nobler," she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or difficulty?

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What I value is the naked contact of a mind.

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Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the...more

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The lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly and soon sinks into an oily somnolence.’ That will be useful.

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They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she...more