Virginia Woolf

"Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers, dreamers; how few parts in the plays of Shakespeare could be allotted to them; how literature would suffer! We might perhaps have most of Othello; and a good deal of Antony; but no Caesar, no Brutus, no Hamlet, no Lear, no Jaques--literature would be incredibly impoverished, as indeed literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women.” 

"Supongamos, por ejemplo, que en la literatura se presentara a los hombres sólo como los amantes de mujeres y nunca como los amigos de hombres, como soldados, pensadores, soñadores; ¡qué pocos papeles podrían desempeñar en las tragedias de Shakespeare! ¡Cómo sufriría la literatura! Quizá nos quedase la mayor parte de Otelo y buena parte de Antonio; pero no tendríamos a César, ni a Bruto, ni a Hamlet, ni a Lear, ni a Jaques. La literatura se empobrecería considerablemente, de igual modo que la ha empobrecido hasta un punto indescriptible el que tantas puertas les hayan sido cerradas a las mujeres."