If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one woul…

Virginia Woolf
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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. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2007). Selected Works of Virginia Woolf, p.590, Wordsworth Editions
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