feminism

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

Virginia Woolf ..when womanhood ceases to be protected

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation

Women's liberation comes from the inside — eating alone

Women’s liberation comes from the inside, and some of the outdated thought patterns of my childhood have been slow to dissolve. This aversion to eating alone was one of the last to go.