Literature against social expectations: women’s role and family institution by bb bb

biancadaloise2006 — 2024-11-14 08:47:25 UTC

London by William Blake

biancadaloise2006 — 2024-11-14 08:52:43 UTC

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But most thro' midnight streets I hear

How the youthful Harlots curse

Blasts the new-born Infants tear

And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse

From Ulysses’ final chapter: Molly’s monologue

biancadaloise2006 — 2024-11-20 09:55:19 UTC

“I’m so glad I’m a woman, I don’t know how to explain it, but it’s a great thing, it’s a beautiful thing”

From “A Vindication of the rights of women”-Mary Wallestone

biancadaloise2006 — 2024-11-20 10:34:15 UTC

“I do not wish them (women) to have power over men, but over themselves”

“The very being or identity of women is buried in the desire to please”

“In this view of the matter, the great misfortune for women is that, instead of having reason and knowledge, they are kept in ignorance and dependence”