[…]Woolf fought for her work and fought for her sex, when she laid claim to Sappho as a great poet and argued against a society that hoxes women. Hox is a racing word: it means to hamstring a horse not so brutally that she can’t walk but cleverly so that she can’t run. Society hoxes women and pretends that God, Nature or the genepool designed them lame.
Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery (via ifveniceissinking)





















