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

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. – Virginia Woolf

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Beauty
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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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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. – Plato, Ion

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Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. – Dante Alighieri

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And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. – Julien Benda

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In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. – Stefan Zweig

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And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mothers push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education. – Sam Donaldson

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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. – Clarence Darrow

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That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. – Albert Einstein

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