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 the great institutions (...) were created by older males who then trained younger ma — Tina Packer, Women of Will: Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays](https://quotesread.com/uploads/quotes/0/08/79/87968.jpg "[Talking about ancient Greece](...) the great institutions (...) were created by older males who then trained younger males. They all had a strong homoerotic element. (...) This thereby increased the — Tina Packer, Women of Will: Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays")
![[Talking about Rosalind in As You Like It] She disguises herself as a boy, drops all the covering inhibitions of "femini — Tina Packer, Women of Will: Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays](https://quotesread.com/uploads/quotes/0/08/79/87977.jpg "[Talking about Rosalind in As You Like It] She disguises herself as a boy, drops all the covering inhibitions of \"femininity\", and really searches for her true self (...) Her disguise gives her the ab — Tina Packer, Women of Will: Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays")
![[Talking about Othello] His dying words are about the service he has done to the state -not what he has done to Desdemon — Tina Packer, Women of Will: Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays](https://quotesread.com/uploads/quotes/0/08/79/87978.jpg "[Talking about Othello] His dying words are about the service he has done to the state -not what he has done to Desdemona. (...) He acknowledges not love but the power structure (...). Othello believe — Tina Packer, Women of Will: Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays")
![[Shakespeare realized that] Women are able to understand themselves better on a personal level and survive in the world — Tina Packer, Women of Will: Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays](https://quotesread.com/uploads/quotes/0/08/79/87980.jpg "[Shakespeare realized that] Women are able to understand themselves better on a personal level and survive in the world if they dress in men's clothing, thus living underground, safe (...). The presen — Tina Packer, Women of Will: Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays")
![He [Hamlet] sees ghosts and listens to dreams. And when his ghost father tells him that he (Hamlet Senior) was killed by — Tina Packer, Women of Will: Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays](https://quotesread.com/uploads/quotes/0/08/79/87990.jpg "He [Hamlet] sees ghosts and listens to dreams. And when his ghost father tells him that he (Hamlet Senior) was killed by his brother and asks Hamlet Junior to avenge his death, in the right, honorable — Tina Packer, Women of Will: Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays")
![He [Shakespeare] was a wordsmith who loved to act and to see things from many points of view.(...) His genius lay in bei — Tina Packer, Women of Will: Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays](https://quotesread.com/uploads/quotes/0/08/79/87998.jpg "He [Shakespeare] was a wordsmith who loved to act and to see things from many points of view.(...) His genius lay in being able to see all sides of an argument. — Tina Packer, Women of Will: Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays")
