Quote by Virginia Woolf
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. - Virginia Woolf

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. – Virginia Woolf

Other quotes by Virginia Woolf

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice. – Virginia Woolf

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Experience
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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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Education
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One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats—and one always secretes too much jelly. – Virginia Woolf

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Quotations
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Other Quotes from
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Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history. – Terry Eagleton

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History

History never looks like history when you are living through it. – John W. Gardner

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History

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. – Aristotle

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History

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. – Hermann Hesse

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History

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All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience. – Alice Walker

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