Logo
Quote by Virginia Woolf
The history of mens opposition to womens emancipation is more inte

The history of mens opposition to womens emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. – Virginia Woolf

Other quotes by Virginia Woolf

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly. – Virginia Woolf

Category:
amazing
Author
Virginia Woolf
Read Quote

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. – Virginia Woolf

Category:
Nature
Author
Virginia Woolf
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
History
category

This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath. – Hillary Clinton

Category:
History

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. – Newt Gingrich

Category:
History

A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing (in any extended sense), and certainly not revealing to us, how, they came to be afoot on these particular journeys. – Michael Oakeshott, On History

Category:
History

Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals. – John Dewey, Characters and Events

Category:
History

Random Quotes

Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration. – Elizabeth Gilbert

Category:
best

We all need empty hours in our lives or we will have no time to create or dream. – Robert Coles

Category:
Leisure

Dinner conversation at the Cohens meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the days events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head. – Andy Cohen

Category:
mom

Twenty children can never play together for twenty years – Michael Adelowo

Category:
Facts