If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man; some think even greater.


A Room of One's Own (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1989) - ISBN: 9780547544403

Virginia Woolf Quotes

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean;...

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean;...

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean;...

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean;...