Virginia Woolf

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• I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

  A Room of One’s Own (1929), Ch. 3, p. 51

  • Women
  • Writing

• The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

  A Room of One’s Own (1929), Ch. 3, p. 72

  • Men
  • Women

• Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

  The Common Reader (1925)

  • Humor

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