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" Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. "
Virginia Woolf
Venture
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" Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders. "
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" On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. "
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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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" We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods. "
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" Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art. "
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" Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe. "
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" It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer. "
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" As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. "
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" One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. "
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" I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write. "
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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. "
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" Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life. "
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" Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say. "
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" The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own. "
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" Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied? "
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