If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not…

Quote by Virginia Woolf

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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to...

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to...

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story...

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story...

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing:...

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing:...

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind...

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind...

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship...

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship...

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to...

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to...

You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and...

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and...

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

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

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write...

A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write...

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than...

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than...

A lady's verily is as potent as a lord's

A lady's verily is as potent as a lord's