All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all t…

Virginia Woolf
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All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are sides, and it is necessary for one side to beat another side. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2005). Selected Works of Virginia Woolf, p.628, Wordsworth Editions
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