Virginia Woolf: to write a work of genius
…to write a work of genius is almost always a feat of prodigious difficulty.
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Dachau Didn’t Move Me
We didn’t tell the Irish, “Time’s up! They’re growing potatoes again.
Virginia Woolf: If Shakespeare had had a sister…
Any woman born with a great gift in the sixteenth century would certainly have gone crazed, shot herself
Virginia Woolf: Why did no woman write that extraordinary literature?
[Woman] 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
REVIEW: HUNGER, by Roxane Gay
I put down the book discouraged and unimpressed, though a little better informed about people I know who have been tragically transformed by a childhood violation.
Virginia Woolf ..when womanhood ceases to be protected
Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation
REVIEW: HILLBILLY ELEGY, by J. D. Vance
I have heard a great deal about the haughtiness and self-satisfaction of “Yankees,” and when Vance refers to “Americans,” that is who he is referring to – the types he met at Yale
Virginia Woolf: The freedom money gives.
…my aunt’s legacy unveiled the sky to me, and substituted for the large and imposing figure of a gentleman, …a view of the open sky
Virginia Woolf: The inferiority of women, or so they say
How [is a man] to go on giving judgement, civilising natives, making laws, writing books, dressing up and speechifying at banquets, unless he can see himself at breakfast and at dinner at least twice the size he really is?