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Quote by Virginia Woolf
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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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. – Virginia Woolf

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Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England. – Virginia Woolf

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The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers. – Virginia Woolf

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