"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."
-Virginia Woolf
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"Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?“
-Virginia Woolf
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"This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room."
-Virginia Woolf
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"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."
-Virginia Woolf
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"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."
-Virginia Woolf
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"If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?"
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"Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size."
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"The most positive men are the most credulous."
-Alexander Pope
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"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."
-Walter Lippmann
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"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
-Georg C. Lichtenberg
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"Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions."
-John Ruskin
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"Strong women only marry weak men."
-Bette Davis
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