Tuesday, November 20, 2007

a room of one's own

'i thought of that old gentleman, who is dead now, but was a bishop, i think, who declared that it was impossible for any woman, past, present, or to come, to have the genius of shakespeare. he wrote to the papers about it. he also told a lady who applied to him for information that cats do not as a matter of fact go to heaven, though they have, he added, souls of a sort. how much thinking those old gentlemen used to save one! how the borders of ignorance shrank back at their approach! cats do not go to heaven. women cannot write the plays of shakespeare.'
--virginia woolf, a room of one's own, 1929

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