Virginia Woolf
Quote 7
Thanks, curiously enough, to two wars, the Crimean which let Florence Nightingale out of her drawing-room, and the European war which opened the doors to the average woman some sixty years later, these evils are in the way to be bettered. (6.14)
This complicates Woolf's discussion of war a little, since war also opens doors for women. But it's super-frustrating that terrible violence is also one of the only ways for women to get more power in the world.