"Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. Without this power probably the earth would still be swamp and jungle... Mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action. That is why Napoleon and Mussolini both insist so emphatically upon the inferiority of women, for if they were not inferior, they would cease to enlarge."
from 'A Room of One's Own', p. 35
Sunday, January 21, 2007
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