"She was like a crinkled poppy; with the……" — Virginia Woolf
"She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust."
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642 Quotes by Virginia Woolf
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- Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I…
- If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost…
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- The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
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