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a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction;
Why does Samuel Butler say, “Wise men never say what they think of women?” Wise men never say anything else apparently.
When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument; and the reader cannot help thinking of the argument too.
a protest against some infringement of his power to believe in himself.
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.
I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
Some of the most inspired words, some of the most profound thoughts in literature fall from her lips; in real life she could hardly read, could scarcely spell, and was the property of her husband.
In the first place, to have a room of her own, let alone a quiet room or a sound-proof room, was out of the question, unless her parents were exceptionally rich or very noble, even up to the beginning of the nineteenth century.
What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the truth.
26th of October
it is fatal for anyone who writes to think of their sex.
