When guys say funny is funny, when guys say feminists are ignoring their pain or struggle, when guys accuse women of saying theyve had it easy, I always REALLY wish guys would have read this: And one gathers from this enormous modern literature of confession and self-analysis that to write a work of genius is almost always a feat of prodigious difficulty. Everything is against the likelihood that it will come from the writer’s mind whole and entire. Generally material circumstances are against it. Dogs will bark; people will interrupt; money must be made; health will break down. Further, accentuating all these difficulties and making them harder to bear is the world’s notorious indifference. It does not ask people to write poems and novels and histories; it does not need them...But for women, I thought, looking at the empty shelves, these difficulties were infinitely more formidable... The indifference of the world which Keats and Flaubert and other men of genius have found so hard to bear was in her case not indifference but hostility. The world did not say to her as it said to them, Write if you choose; it makes no difference to me. The world said with a guffaw, Write? What’s the good of your writing? - Virginia Woolf
Posted on: Fri, 30 May 2014 08:54:09 +0000
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