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Linguistica del testo. Principi, fenomeni, strutture

by Angela Ferrari (Goodreads Author)

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Frances’s Quotes

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: freedom, women, writing

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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 size.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: arrogance, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, inequality, men, self-importance, women

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“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

tags: dignity, empowerment, equality, freedom, gender, independence, power, women, women-s-rights

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