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Isabel
is on page 66 of 176
“She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she’s all but absent from history. She dominates the lives of kings and conquerors in fiction; in fact she was the slave of any boy whose parents forced a ring upon her finger. […] some of the most profound thoughts in literature fall from her lips; in real life she could hardly read”
— Aug 17, 2026 09:18AM
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Isabel
is on page 167 of 176
“I am reminded by dipping into newspapers and novels and biographies that when a woman speaks to women she should have something very unpleasant up her sleeve. Women are hard on women. Women dislike women. […] What can I think of? The truth is, I often like women.”
— Aug 21, 2026 03:44AM
Isabel
is on page 162 of 176
“Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor”
— Aug 21, 2026 03:41AM
Isabel
is on page 150 of 176
“Then Alan got up and the shadow of Alan at once obliterated Phoebe. For Alan had views and Phoebe was quenched in the flood of his views.”
— Aug 21, 2026 03:38AM
Isabel
is on page 149 of 176
“The Suffrage campaign was no doubt to blame. It must have roused in men an extraordinary desire for self-assertion; it must have made them lay an emphasis upon their own sex and its characteristics which they would not have troubled to think about had they not been challenged.”
— Aug 21, 2026 03:37AM
Isabel
is on page 136 of 176
“A true picture of a man as whole can never be painted until a woman has described that spot the size of a shilling.”
— Aug 20, 2026 10:09AM
Isabel
is on page 126 of 176
“The poet was forced to be passionate or bitter, unless indeed he cos’è to ‘hate women’, which meant more often than not that he was unattractive to them.”
— Aug 20, 2026 10:07AM
Isabel
is on page 124 of 176
“almost without exception they are shown in their relation to men. […] and how small a part of a woman’s life is that; and how little can a man know even of that when he observes it through the black or sort spectacles which sex puts upon his nose.”
— Aug 20, 2026 10:06AM
Isabel
is on page 121 of 176
“she was afraid […] of being called ‘sentimental’ perhaps; or she remembers that women’s writing has been called flowery and so provides a superfluity of thorns”
— Aug 20, 2026 10:03AM
Isabel
is on page 114 of 176
“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.”
— Aug 20, 2026 10:02AM
Isabel
is on page 111 of 176
“This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feeling of women in a drawing-room.”
— Aug 20, 2026 10:00AM