June 2012
73 posts
“I keep remembering—I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.”
—
Henri Barbusse
The Inferno
(via yochanah)
“‘Chloe liked Olivia,’ I read. And then it struck me how immense a change was there. Chloe liked Olivia perhaps for the first time in literature…All these relationships between women, I thought, rapidly recalling the splendid gallery of fictitious women, are too simple. So much has been left out, unattempted. And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends…They are confidantes, of course, in Racine and the Greek tragedies. They are now and then mothers and daughters. But almost without exception they are shown in their relation to men.”
—Virginia Woolf, “A Room of One’s Own” (via gerutha)
