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That is why Napoleon and Mussolini both insist so emphatically upon the inferiority of women, for if they were not inferior, they would cease to enlar...more

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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.

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By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world...more

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Life for both sexes - and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement - is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigan...more

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Does it explain my astonishment the other day when Z, most humane, most modest of men, taking up some book by Rebecca West and reading a passage in it...more

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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...more

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All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.

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It is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about. No force in the world can take fr...more

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I should never be able to fulfill what is,I understand, the first duty of a lecturer-to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to w...more

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Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. (...) Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have ...more

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When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who ...more

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Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women

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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural...more

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Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free an...more

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One does not like to be told that one is naturally the inferior of a little man