Thank you sister Quotes by Virginia Woolf

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You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.

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Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the number of children, whether she had money of her own, if she had a room to herself, whether she had help bringing up her family, if she had servants, whether part of the housework was…

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