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

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea. – Virginia Woolf

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Intelligence
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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. – Virginia Woolf

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Dreams
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Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England. – Virginia Woolf

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Aristocracy
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Its not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions. – Norman Mailer

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Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed. – Paul Ryan

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Its a very good historical book about history. – Dan Quayle

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History

Historians are gossips who tease the dead. – Voltaire, Scribbling Books

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