“ You are not a woman. You may try—but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl. ”
George Eliot, Daniel Deronda (1876). copy citation
| Author | George Eliot |
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| Source | Daniel Deronda |
| Topic | slavery suffering |
| Date | 1876 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7469/pg7469-images.html |
Context
“Though my own experience has been quite different, I enter into the painfulness of your struggle. I can imagine the hardship of an enforced renunciation."
"No," said the Princess, shaking her head and folding her arms with an air of decision. "You are not a woman. You may try—but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl. To have a pattern cut out—'this is the Jewish woman; this is what you must be; this is what you are wanted for; a woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet;”
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