"If woman had no existence save in the……" — Virginia Woolf

"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

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