can then begin to enjoy the benefits men have experienced for centuries. Again she describes how women are inferior through the allusion of a cat, "The tailless cat, though some are said to exist in the Isle of man, is rarer than one thinks. It is a queer animal, quaint rather than beautiful." (Woolf A Room... 15) Woolf scholarly supports her argument of inferiority with insight from well-known men:
             I have told you the very low opinion in which you [women] were held by Mr. Oscar Browning. I have indicated what Napoleon once thought of you and what Mussolini thinks now...I have copied out for your benefit the advice of the critic about courageously acknowledging the limitations of your sex. I have referred to Professor X and given prominence to his statement that women are intellectually, morally and physically inferior to men . . .
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