| Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar - 1979 - 370 sidor
...conditions of oppression. "For it needs little skill in psychology," she wrote in A Room of One's Own, "to be sure that a highly gifted girl who had tried...poetry would have been so thwarted and hindered by other people, so tortured and pulled asunder by her own contrary instincts, that she must have lost... | |
| Shirley Morahan - 1981 - 334 sidor
...cottage outside the village, half witch, half wizard, feared and mocked at. For it needs little skill in psychology to be sure that a highly gifted girl who...poetry would have been so thwarted and hindered by other people, so tortured and pulled asunder by her own contrary instincts, that she must have lost... | |
| Margaret J. M. Ezell - 1996 - 220 sidor
...witch, half wizard, feared and mocked at. For it needs little skill in psychology to be sure that the highly gifted girl who had tried to use her gift for...poetry would have been so thwarted and hindered by other people, so tortured and pulled asunder by her own contrary instincts, that she must have lost... | |
| Angelyn Mitchell - 1994 - 548 sidor
...century," insert "black woman," insert "born or made a slave"] would certainly have gone crazed, shot herself, or ended her days in some lonely cottage...instincts [add "chains, guns, the lash, the ownership of one's body by someone else, submission to an alien religion"], that she must have lost her health and... | |
| Alice Walker - 1994 - 240 sidor
...century," insert "black woman," insert "born or made a slave"] would certainly have gone crazed, shot herself, or ended her days in some lonely cottage...instincts [add "chains, guns, the lash, the ownership of one's body by someone else, submission to an alien religion"], that she must have lost her health and... | |
| Patricia Anne Vertinsky - 1989 - 292 sidor
...p. 405. Virginia Woolf later commented on the same frustrating phenomenon: 'It needs little skill in psychology to be sure that a highly gifted girl who...poetry would have been so thwarted and hindered by other people, so tortured and pulled apart by her own contrary instincts that she must have lost her... | |
| Aimable Twagilimana - 1997 - 204 sidor
...century. " insert "black woman. " insert "boro or made a slave"! would certainly have gone crazed, shot herself, or ended her days in some lonely cottage...instincts [add "chains, guns, the lash, the ownership of one's body by someone else, submission to an alien religion "/. that she must have lost her health... | |
| Virginia Woolf - 1998 - 488 sidor
...cottage outside the village, half witch, half wizard, feared and mocked at. For it needs little skill in psychology to be sure that a highly gifted girl who...poetry would have been so thwarted and hindered by other people, so tortured and pulled asunder by her own contrary instincts, that she must have lost... | |
| Drucilla Cornell - 1998 - 271 sidor
...being raped. She would have been shut out from owning her own gifts. "For it needs little skill in psychology to be sure that a highly gifted girl who...poetry would have been so thwarted and hindered by other people, so tortured and pulled asunder by her own contrary instincts, that she must have lost... | |
| Michelle Plott, Lauri Umansky - 2000 - 588 sidor
...century," insert "black woman," insert "born or made a slave"] would certainly have gone crazed, shot herself, or ended her days in some lonely cottage...instincts [add "chains, guns, the lash, the ownership of one's body by someone else, submission to an alien religion"] , that she must have lost her health... | |
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