Virginia Woolf

England
25 Jan 1882 // 28 Mar 1941
Writer

The Constant Fight and Glory

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, and of the utmost importance to walk up to a platform and receive from the hands of the Headmaster himself a highly ornamental pot.

Virginia Woolf, in 'A Room of One's Own'
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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