A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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If we help an educated man's 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
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
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At 46 one must be a miser only have time for essentials.
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Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
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Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that.
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Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.
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