"It is fatal to be a man or……" — Virginia Woolf

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple;… - Virginia Woolf

"It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. It is fatal for a woman to lay the least stress on any grievance; to plead even with justice any cause; in any way to speak consciously as a woman. And fatal is no figure of speech; for anything written with that conscious bias is doomed to death. It ceases to be fertilized."

— Virginia Woolf

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