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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. - Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own)

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Source:(The Hogarth Press, ed. 1935), Chapter 3, Page 84
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Virginia Woolf - Book Quotes
  • Book: A Room of One's Own
  • Writer: Virginia Woolf
  • Genre: Classics, Essays, Feminism
  • Published: 1929
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