Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, i…

Virginia Woolf
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Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious. ✨ Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). Orlando: A Biography, p.136, Oxford University Press, USA
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