Virginia Woolf

I guess Virginia Woolf had a dubious relationship to men and taking on male sex, which is perhaps also reflected in the fact that she married a Jew while having a smidgen of anti-Semitic feeling. She once said to her Leonard, “As I told you brutally the other day, I feel no attraction in you. There are moments – when you kissed me the other day was one – when I feel no more than a rock.” Later on, she also wrote to him, “I feel angry sometimes at the strength of your desire,” while also putting in the mouth of one of her novel's heroines, speaking of a man's sexual appetites, “It is terrifying – it is disgusting.” This must have helped to make life more difficult for her, while also helping to give her a distinct writing voice.

[Source: Emma Woolf at Newsweek]

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