If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not fo…

Virginia Woolf
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If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers? ✨ Virginia Woolf (2016). Three Guineas, p.51, Virginia Woolf
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