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"There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking."

Woolf, Virginia on dress    Share


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

Woolf, Virginia on feminism
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"Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size."

Woolf, Virginia on women
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"Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"

Woolf, Virginia on women
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"That great Cathedral space which was childhood."

Woolf, Virginia on childhood    Share

"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."

Eliot, George on deeds and good deeds
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"To die will be an awfully big adventure."

Barrie, Sir James M. on death
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"Please all, and you will please none."

Aesop on approval
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"If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe."

Allen, Woody on risk
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I'm female and made my book on 13th December 2011.

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