If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be…

Virginia Woolf
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If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share. ✨ Three Guineas pt. 3 (1938)
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If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share. ✨ Three Guineas pt. 3 (1938)

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