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“Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“Possibly when the professor insisted a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of women, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his own superiority. That was what he was protecting rather hot-headedly and with too much emphasis, because it was a jewel to him of the rarest price.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“It is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people...Think of things in themselves.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“I ask this one thing: let me go mad in my own way.”
― Electra
― Electra
“His immense self-pity, his demand for sympathy poured and spread itself in pools at their feet, and all she did, miserable sinner that she was, was to draw her skirts a little closer round her ankles, lest she should get wet.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
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