A Room of One's Own / Своя комната

I could not possibly go home, I reflected, and add as a serious contribution to the study of women and fiction that women have less hair on their bodies than men, or that the age of puberty among the South Sea Islanders is nine – or is it ninety? – even the handwriting had become in its distraction indecipherable. It was disgraceful to have nothing more weighty or respectable to show after a whole morning's work. And if I could not grasp the truth about W. (as for brevity's sake I had come to call her) in the past, why bother about W. in the future? It seemed pure waste of time to consult all those gentlemen who specialize in woman and her effect on whatever it may be – politics, children, wages, morality – numerous and learned as they are. One might as well leave their books unopened.

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Примечания

1

'We are told that we ought to ask for £30,000 at least… It is not a large sum, considering that there is to be but one college of this sort for Great Britain, Ireland and the Colonies, and considering how easy it is to raise immense sums for boys' schools. But considering how few people really wish women to be educated, it is a good deal.' – Lady Stephen, Emily Davies and Girton College.

2

Every penny which could be scraped together was set aside for building, and the amenities had to be postponed. —

R. Strachey, The Cause

3

'“Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.”…In justice to the sex, I think it but candid to acknowledge that, in a subsequent conversation, he told me that he was serious in what he said.' – Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides.

4

'The ancient Germans believed that there was something holy in women, and accordingly consulted them as oracles.' – Frazer, Golden Bough.