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segunda-feira, março 07, 2005

Women Power

Virginia Woolf


"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
Isso acabou e esta frase tem autora :Virginia Woolf.
Tal como esta:
"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."
E esta:
"Life for both sexes —and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement —is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength. More than anything, perhaps, creatures of illusion as we are, it calls for confidence in oneself. Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to one self."
E várias outras num ensaio indispensável baseado em palestras realizadas em Cambridge - em dois dos colleges que aceitavam mulheres - em 1929: A Room of One's Own.