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Killing the Angel in the House was part of theoccupation of a woman writer. It
issues in a spate of words fromthe loudspeakers and the politicians. There is
no woman inthe Cabinet; nor in any responsible post.
At any moment a bombmay
fall on this very room.
It was useless to ask the lecturer to repeat his words;
on heplodded with dogged pertinacity. Yetwhat is the point of asking questions
of oneself?
They would honour them for their refusal to bearchildren.
How can
youlearn to write if you write only about one single person? It alsotells you
how you may distribute copies of this eBook if you want to. When the first
number of LYSISTRATA appeared, I confess that I was deeplydisappointed.
At
last, when they haddestroyed all my fancy pictures of Lady Holland and Dr.
Be
sympathetic; be tender; flatter; deceive; use all the arts andwiles of our sex.
Why not create a new form of society founded on poverty andequality? Copyright
laws are changing all over the world.
Because there are other tables besides
officer tables and conferencetables. These then were two very genuine
experiences of my own.
But the second, telling the truthabout my own
experiences as a body, I do not think I solved. If we could free ourselves from
slavery we should free men fromtyranny. I should explain that like so many
people nowadays I am pestered withquestions.
Othellos occupation will be
gone;but he will remain Othello. It was she whobothered me and wasted my time
and so tormented me that at last I killedher.
The searchlights, wavering across
the flat, have picked up the plane now. It could have been thickened and
stiffened. You have only got to figureto yourselves a girl in a bedroom with a
pen in her hand.
Round and round it goes, sawing and sawing at a branch
directly above thehouse. There is no woman inthe Cabinet; nor in any
responsible post.
I suspect that this state is the same both formen and
women.
And to understand it youmust try first to imagine a novelists state of
mind.
He wants life to proceed with the utmost quiet andregularity. He said to
his captors, speaking fairlygood English, How glad I am that the fight is
over!
Men, her reason told her, would be shocked.
And for heavens sake, publish
nothing before you arethirty.
She was indeed in a state of the most acute and
difficultdistress. Be that as it may, I want you to imagine me writing anovel
in a state of trance. The shadow of herwings fell on my page; I heard the
rustling of her skirts in the room.
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