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# Virginia Wolff

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Virginia Euwer Wolff is an American author of children's literature. Her award-winning series Make Lemonade features a 14-year-old girl named LaVaughn, who babysits for the children of a 17-year-old single mother. There are three books. The second, True Believer, won the 2001 National Book Award for

##  Quotes by Virginia Wolff

> [“If you want something to grow and be so beautiful you could have a nice day just from looking at it, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-wolff/if-you-want-something-to-grow-and-be-so-beautiful-you-could-have-a/)

[Virginia Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-wolff/)

[Grow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/grow/)

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> [“All thinking (is) an effort to make thought escape from the thinker's mind past all obstacles as completely as possible: all society…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-wolff/all-thinking-is-an-effort-to-make-thought-escape-from-the-thinker-s/)

[Virginia Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-wolff/)

[Psychology](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/psychology/)

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> [“I do not believe that gifts, whether of mind or character, can be weighed like sugar and butter, not even in Cambridge,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-wolff/i-do-not-believe-that-gifts-whether-of-mind-or-character-can-be/)

[Virginia Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-wolff/)

[Cambridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cambridge/)

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> [“Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction — so we are told.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-wolff/fiction-must-stick-to-facts-and-the-truer-the-facts-the-better-the/)

[Virginia Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-wolff/)

[Writer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writer/)

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