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    Virginia Woolf
    “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, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: food, love
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    Virginia Woolf
    “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: honesty, lies, stories, truth
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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    Virginia Woolf
    “As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas
    tags: calming, reassuring, true
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: growing-up, illusions, life
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    Virginia Woolf
    “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: fiction, money, on-writing, virgin, women, writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: emancipation, empowerment, feminism, gender, men, misogyny, women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Three, 1923-1928
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  • #11
    So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters;
    “So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: feminism, writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary
    tags: fame, independence, self-worth
    777 likes

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    Virginia Woolf
    “I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
    tags: desire, disatisfaction, life
    718 likes

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    Virginia Woolf
    “Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: clichés, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, inequality, misogyny, morality, protectiveness, social-norms, stereotypes, womanhood, women
    505 likes

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    Margaret Atwood
    “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: apocryphal, feminism
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    Margaret Atwood
    “A word after a word after a word is power.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: reading, writing
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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  • #18
    Candace Bushnell
    “Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.”
    ― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City
    tags: love, relationships
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    Candace Bushnell
    “Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them.
    -Carrie Bradshaw”
    ― Candace Bushnell
    tags: carrie-bradshaw, free, sex-and-the-city, wild
    695 likes

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    Candace Bushnell
    “Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.”
    ― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City
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    Candace Bushnell
    “The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.”
    ― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City
    tags: life
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    Candace Bushnell
    “I like my money right where I can see it…hanging in my closet”
    ― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City
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    Candace Bushnell
    “Better alone than badly accompanied.”
    ― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City
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  • #24
    Candace Bushnell
    “What if I'm a princess on another planet? And no one on this planet knows it?”
    ― Candace Bushnell, The Carrie Diaries
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  • #25
    Candace Bushnell
    “That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.”
    ― Candace Bushnell, One Fifth Avenue
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    Candace Bushnell
    “Funny always makes the bad things go away.”
    ― Candace Bushnell, The Carrie Diaries
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    Candace Bushnell
    “If you smile, even if you’re feeling bad, the action of the muscles will trick your brain into thinking you’re happy”
    ― Candace Bushnell, The Carrie Diaries
    tags: carrie-bradshaw
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    Candace Bushnell
    “Whoever we are here, we might be princesses somewhere else. Or writers. Or scientists. Or presidents. Or whatever the hell we want to be that everyone else says we can't.”
    ― Candace Bushnell, The Carrie Diaries
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    Candace Bushnell
    “Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.”
    ― Candace Bushnell, Lipstick Jungle
    tags: age, hope, optimism, snow, winter
    83 likes

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  • #30
    Margaret Atwood
    “Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    341 likes



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