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Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own Quotes: Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.
         

Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.


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Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?



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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.



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