Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the cour…

Virginia Woolf
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Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe? ✨ Virginia Woolf (2015). A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas, p.21, Oxford University Press, USA
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