"I’m a witch woman; high on tobacco and holy water. I’m a woman delighted with her disasters. They give me something to do. A profession of sorts. I have the magic of words."
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"A book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes."
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (via antigonick)
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"It is debilitating to be any woman in a society where women are warned that if they do not behave like angels they must be monsters."
Gilbert and Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic: the Woman Writer and the nineteenth century literary imagination, chapter 2, the Infection of the Sentence (via sweetsummerchildofmine)
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"She began to do as she liked and to feel as she liked. She had resolved never to take another step backward."
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"In rereading Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own (1929) for the first time in some years, I was astonished at the sense of effort, of pains taken, of dogged tentativeness, in the tone of that essay. And I recognized that tone. I had heard it often enough, in myself and other women. It is the tone of a woman determined not to appear angry, who is willing herself to be calm, detached, and even charming in a roomful of men where things have been said which are attacks on her very integrity. Virginia Woolf is addressing an audience of woman, but she is acutely conscious–as she always was–over being overheard by men: by Morgan and Lytton and Maynard Keynes and for that matter by her father, Leslie Stephen. She drew the language out into an exacerbated thread in her determination to have her own sensibility yet protect it from those masculine presences."
Adrienne Rich, Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations (via days-of-reading)
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"I have done nothing all summer but wait for myself to be myself again —"
Georgia O’Keeffe, in a letter to Russel Vernon Hunter, from Georgia O’Keeffe: Art and Letters
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