The Lady in the Looking-Glass Quotes

“Men perhaps, should you be a woman; the masculine point of view which governs our lives, which sets the standard, which established Whitaker’s Table of Precedency, which has become, I suppose, since the war half a phantom to many men and women, which soon, one may hope, will be laughed into the dustbin where phantoms go, the mahogany sideboards and the Landseer prints, Gods and Devils, Hell and so forth, leaving us all with an intoxicating sense of illegitimate freedom - if freedom exists…”
― Virginia Woolf, The Lady in the Looking-Glass