Quotation by Virginia Woolf

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"An Unwritten Novel" Monday or Tuesday (1921)A Room of One's Own (1929)"A Sketch of the Past" Moments of Being (written 1939-1940), ed. Jeanne Schulkind (1976)A Terrible Tragedy in a Duckpond (1990)A Writer's Diary ed. Leonard Woolf (1954)

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Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), British novelist. A Room Of One's Own, ch. 3 (1929).

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