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If we help an educated mans daughter to go to Cambridge are we not

If we help an educated mans 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? – Virginia Woolf

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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title. – Virginia Woolf

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Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women? – Virginia Woolf

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