I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman …

Virginia Woolf
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I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write. ✨ Virginia Woolf (1980). The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
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I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write. ✨ Virginia Woolf (1980). The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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