在想象中，她无比尊贵；在现实中，她根本无足轻重。她充斥于诗集的字里行间；却在历史中无迹可寻。她主宰小说中的帝王和征服者的人生，却像奴隶般听命于现实中的未成年男子，只要那男孩的父母能强使她套上婚戒。文学作品中，多少富于灵感的动人词句、最隽永深刻的思想都由她说出，而真实生活中，她认不得几个字，更别提读写，只能算是丈夫的私有财产。

Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history. She dominates the lives of kings and conquerors in fiction; in fact she was the slave of any boy whose parents forced a ring upon her finger. Some of the most inspired words, some of the most profound thoughts in literature fall from her lips; in real life she could hardly read, could scarcely spell, and was the property of her husband.

《一间自己的房间》(A Room of One’s Own)
弗吉尼亚·沃尔夫 （Virginia Woolf)
译者：于是｜中信出版社