At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial-and any question a…

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At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial-and any question about sex is that-one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2015). A Room of One's Own (Annotated), p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial-and any question about sex is that-one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2015). A Room of One's Own (Annotated), p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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