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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

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I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

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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?

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There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

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Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

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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.

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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

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I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.

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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: January 25th, 1882

Died: March 28th, 1941

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