 | Glenn Theodore Seaborg - Science - 1968 - 120 pages
...women make to their solution will be greater than ever before. The words of Virginia Woolf that "women have served all these centuries as looking glasses...reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size" will be as accurate in the year 2000 as they are today. THE MANY FACES OF CHANGE* To begin with, while... | |
 | Colin Bingham - Reference - 1982 - 376 pages
...interest. ws LANDOR pleasures of human intercourse and the enjoyment of beautiful objects. GE MOORE Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses...probably the earth would still be swamp and jungle. The glories of all our wars would be unknown . . . Mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic... | |
 | Elizabeth Langland, Walter R. Gove - Education - 1983 - 168 pages
...power to believe in himself brings anger. "Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size," she concludes. Woolf was writing of women and fiction. But she could have been talking about women... | |
 | Katharine Burdekin - Fiction - 1985 - 212 pages
...Own (1929). With bitter irony Woolf writes: 'Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting...probably the earth would still be swamp and jungle. The glory of all our wars would be unknown.' Although Burdekin, in her earlier works, was already attuned... | |
 | Alma H. Bond - Divorce - 2000 - 476 pages
...their potential? If, as Virginia Woolf says, "Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size", then why have women accepted this state of affairs for so long? What in the history of the United States... | |
 | Josephine Donovan - Social Science - 2000 - 290 pages
...male ego would shrink proportionately. For "women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. . . . That is why Napoleon and Mussolini both insist so emphatically upon the inferiority of women,... | |
 | Nancy Henley, Jacqueline Desire Goodchilds - Humor - 2000 - 340 pages
...contested without danger. —Mary Wollstonecraft Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. —Virginia Woolf ^HE RIGHT EDUCATION j of the Female Sex, " as it is in a manner everywhere neglected,... | |
 | Ann Banfield - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 456 pages
..."these lies, these exaggerations" (TL, 63): "Women have served all these centuries as a looking-glass possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size" (Room, 35). The woman disburdens the man: "she was friendly to him now - he was relieved of his egotism"... | |
 | Elizabeth Podnieks - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 434 pages
...themselves.60 Woolf states the case simply: "Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size."61 Humanism further diminished women's sense and "size" of self by constituting the subject capable... | |
 | David William Foster, Daniel Altamiranda - Hispanic studies - 2001 - 366 pages
...mirror». If, as Virginia Woolf had it, «women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size, [butJ if she begins to tell the truth, the figure in the looking-glass shrinks» íWoolf, 35), then,... | |
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Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. 
