It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like m…

Virginia Woolf
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It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities? ✨ Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas, p.114
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