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It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.


Virginia Woolf


#fatal #man #manly #must #pure

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.


Virginia Woolf


#beings #birth #fellowship #human #human beings

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.


Virginia Woolf


#curtain #draw #essay #good #must

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.


Virginia Woolf


#cleanliness #endeavour #extravagance #genius #hard

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.


Virginia Woolf


#down #jelly #much #people #quotations

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.


Virginia Woolf


#better #down #likes #misfortune #much

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.


Virginia Woolf


#childhood #great #space #which

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.


Virginia Woolf


#clothes #connection #dress #far #finest

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.


Virginia Woolf


#guess #i #many #often #poems

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?


Virginia Woolf


#advantages #brothers #cambridge #daughter #educated






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