| 1 | ->A recent film, ''Film/TheHours'', presents [[Creator/VirginiaWoolf Woolf]] in a way surely her contemporaries would have marvelled at. She is the very image of a sensitive suffering lady novelist. Where is the malicious spiteful woman she in fact was? And dirty-mouthed, too, though with an upper-class accent. Posterity, it seems, has to soften and make respectable, smooth and polish, unable to see that the rough, the raw, the discordant, may be the source and nurse of creativity. (...) How do we love female victims; oh, how we do love them. |
| 2 | -->-- '''Doris Lessing''' in her foreword to the Virginia Woolf anthology ''Carlyle’s House and Other Sketches'' |
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| 4 | -> ''Weep as this once proud [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething queen]], [[ActionPolitician senator]], and [[LadyOfWar warrior]] spends the whole movie barefoot and pregnant.'' |
| 5 | -->-- ''WebVideo/HonestTrailers: Film/StarWarsEpisodeIIIRevengeOfTheSith'' |
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| 7 | -> ''Judging by the statues they carved and the way she was worshipped, Aphrodite was a full-on war god back when she first made landfall. Now, unsurprisingly, a goddess of beauty and sex simultaneously being a goddess of war was unlikely to bother the Spartans, because, you know, [[ProudWarriorRace Spartans]], but the rest of Greece didn't seem too keen on the concept - apparently, it was considered [[OxymoronicBeing an inherent contradiction in values]]. The warlike Aphrodite is found almost exclusively On Kythera and in Sparta. And it's worth noting that in ''Literature/TheIliad'', Zeus explicitly tells Aphrodite that she doesn't belong on the battlefield, which is the kind of overt character interaction that contemporary writers like to use to [[WriterOnBoard make firm political statements on controversial subjects]]. The fact that it needed to be stated at all implies it might have been something of a debate at the time.'' |
| 8 | -->-- ''WebAnimation/OverlySarcasticProductions'', "[[https://youtu.be/JIUq0pfAskU Miscellaneous Myths: Aphrodite]]" |
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