![]() ![]() She lives in you and in me, and in many other women who are not here tonight, for they are washing up the dishes and putting the children to bed. ![]() Now my belief is that this poet who never wrote a word and was buried at the crossroads still lives. She died young -alas, she never wrote a word. Shakespeare had a sister but do not look for her in Sir Sidney Lee’s life of the poet. ![]() Mr John Langdon Davies warns women "that when children cease to be altogether desirable, women cease to be altogether necessary." I hope you will make note of it."- A Room of One's Own (1929) I have referred to Professor X and given prominence to his statement that women are intellectually, morally and physically inferior to men. Then, in case any of you aspire to fiction, I have copied out for your benefit the advice of the critic about courageously acknowledging the limitations of your sex. I have indicated what Napoleon once thought of you and what Mussolini thinks now. "I have told you the very low opinion in which you were held by Mr Oscar Browning. An amusing book might be made of it if some young student at Girton or Newnham would collect examples and deduce a theory, - but she would need thick gloves on her hands, and bars to protect her of solid gold."- A Room of One's Own (1929) "The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. ![]()
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