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Three Guineas
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"Three Guineas" Quotes

"Three Guineas" discusses women's education and employment, and the role of women in preventing war.

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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Virginia Woolf

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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Virginia Woolf

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As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

Virginia Woolf

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The best woman in Shakespeare is undoubtedly Cleopatra. How could a woman be a woman and not be the best?

Virginia Woolf

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It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly.

Virginia Woolf

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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Virginia Woolf

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To be successful, a woman must be much better at her job than a man.

Virginia Woolf

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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

Virginia Woolf

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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Virginia Woolf

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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

Virginia Woolf

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