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«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?»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
«Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.»
«You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
«The critic of the opposite sex will be genuinely puzzled and surprised by an attempt to alter the current scale of values, and will see in it not merely a difference of view, but a view that is weak, or trivial, or sentimental, because it differs from their own.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
«It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
«Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
« A Phone of Their Own .»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
«In fiction, where so much of personality is revealed, the absence of charm is a great lack, ... and her critics, who have been, of course, mostly of the opposite sex, have resented, half consciously perhaps, her deficiency in a quality which is held to be supremely desirable in women. George Eliot was not charming; she was not strongly feminine; she had none of those eccentricities and inequalities of temper which give to so many artists the endearing simplicity of children.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
«At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
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