Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to…

Virginia Woolf
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Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself. ✨ Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2001). The Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fiction, p.53, Oxford University Press, USA
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Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself. ✨ Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2001). The Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fiction, p.53, Oxford University Press, USA

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