If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure

Virginia Woolf
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If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully? ✨ Virginia Woolf (2003). A Writer's Diary, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully? ✨ Virginia Woolf (2003). A Writer's Diary, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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