I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up …

Virginia Woolf
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I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2005). Selected Works of Virginia Woolf, p.687, Wordsworth Editions
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