It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman …

Virginia Woolf
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It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly. ✨ Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas, p.136
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It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly. ✨ Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas, p.136

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