When Virginia Woolf Wrote, The History Of Mens Opposition To Emancipation Is More Interesting Perhaps

when virginia woolf wrote, ‘the history of men’s opposition to emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself’, and when margaret atwood said, ‘men are afraid women will laugh at them. women are afraid men will kill them', and when sally rooney wrote, ‘generally, I find men are a lot more concerned with limiting the freedoms of women than exercising personal freedom for themselves'.

“Thoughts that found a maze of mermaid hair / Tangling in the tide’s green fall / Now fold their wings like bats and disappear / Into the attic of the skull.”

— Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems; “Two Lovers & a Beachcomber by the Real Sea,”

— Marina Tsvetaeva, ‘Poems for Blok’

“a flower not far from the night my mute body opens to the dew and its fragile urgency”

— Alejandra Pizarnik, from Works and Nights: “Lovers”

Every wall is a door

- R.W. Emerson Raffaello Ossola art

I went to the woods because I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life! To put to rout all that was not life. And not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.