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Quote by Virginia Woolf
The history of mens opposition to womens emancipation is more inte

The history of mens opposition to womens emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. – Virginia Woolf

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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. – Virginia Woolf

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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 would mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. – Virginia Woolf

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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. – Virginia Woolf

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A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia. – David McCullough

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Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that there are those who claim to have seen her with her slip showing. – Willis Thornton, Fable, Fact and History

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I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way. – George W. Bush

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Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made. – John Terraine

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