Simone de Beauvoir: "Jelas, semuanya selalu didefinisikan oleh ideolog...

"Jelas, semuanya selalu didefinisikan oleh ideologi dominan. Tetapi ideologi dominan telah mampu menerima sastra wanita dan juga sastra pria. Saya akan mengatakan bahwa wanita telah dihalangi untuk menciptakan karena berbagai alasan, seperti yang dijelaskan Virginia Woolf dengan sangat mengagumkan di A Room of One's Own. Ketika mereka telah menciptakan, secara keseluruhan mereka telah dikenali. Dalam sastra itu hampir tidak menindas seperti dalam, katakanlah, lukisan, di mana bahkan begitu banyak pelukis wanita selalu ditolak."

--- Simone de Beauvoir

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Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as well as men's literature. I would say that women have been hindered from creating for a variety of reasons, as Virginia Woolf so admirably explained in A Room of One's Own. When they have created, on the whole they have been recognized. In literature it hasn't been nearly as oppressive as in, say, painting, where even the existence of so many women painters has always been denied.