“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority, belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are 'sides,' and it is necessary for one side to beat another side, and of the utmost importance to walk up to a platform and receive from the hands of the Headmaster himself a highly ornamental pot.”
― A Room of One's Own
― A Room of One's Own
“For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“Sleep came to them, quick and easy, like money to millionaires.”
― The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
― The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
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