"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
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"I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.“
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"This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room."
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"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."
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"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."
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"If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?"
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"Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size."
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