Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Quotation by Jane Austen

''Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove any thing.''


Jane Austen (1775–1817), British novelist. Anne Elliot in Persuasion, ch. 23 (1818).

2 comments:

  1. What you have quoted is very true - lots of feminists have reflected on this point in the past 60 years. Some have mentioned that history is really HIS-tory and that women need to write their own stories.

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  2. Lolx...'HIS-tory'...new vocab... :)

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