no training in a university
can women attend university at this time?
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Why are women, judging from this catalogue, so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
Perhaps women who have the means and sense to write such a book realize that it would be ridiculous to presume to know enough about men to write a book.
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the effect of tradition and of the lack of tradition upon the mind of a writer
is it not the game of a writer to break tradition?
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there could be no doubt that for some reason or other our mothers had mismanaged their affairs very gravely.
why is it their mother's fault?
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For truth . . .
Here it seems that she is trying to say that truth is a good thing that should be sought out but when it comes to the true nature of humanity she can not make that argument.
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Shall we lay the blame on the war? When the guns fired in August 1914, did the faces of men and women show so plain in each other’s eyes that romance was killed? Certainly it was a shock (to women in particular with their illusions about education, and so on) to see the faces of our rulers in the light of the shell-fire. So ugly they looked—German, English, French—so stupid. But lay the blame where one will, on whom one will, the illusion which inspired Tennyson and Christina Rossetti to sing so passionately about the coming of their loves is far rarer now than then. One has only to read, to look, to listen, to remember. But why say ‘blame’? Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in its place? For truth . . .
this whole passage is really interesting and should be looked at closer
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It is a curious fact that novelists have a way of making us believe that luncheon parties are invariably memorable for something very witty that was said, or for something very wise that was done. But they seldom spare a word for what was eaten.
Why is the food be important to the essay?
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I give you my thoughts as they came to me)
It is very strange to me that she should write an essay as a stream of conciseness without any obvious purpose other then to explain what exactly it is that she is thinking
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ladies are only admitted to the library if accompanied by a Fellow of the College or furnished with a letter of introduction.
why?
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no very great harm was done
this shows how easily people can get used to being treated with disrespect
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Fiction here is likely to contain more truth than fact
what is the difference between truth and fact?<br> Can truth change? Can fact change? Which is more important?
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