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GEORGE SAND ~ MY INNER STRENGTH

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“When my submission has been claimed, no longer in the name of love and friendship but by reason of some right or power, I have drawn upon the strength that is buried in my nature, I have straightened my shoulders and thrown off the yoke. I alone know the latent force hidden within me. I alone know how much I grieve and suffer and love.”

George Sand

VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ A REWARD FOR BOOKWURMS?

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“When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.”

Virginia Woolf

VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ THE WAVES OF LIFE

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“Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next. ”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

COLETTE ~ ON LIFE

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“I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.”

Colette

KATHERINE MANSFIELD ~ BEING A WRITER

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“I’m a writer first and a woman after.”
Katherine Mansfield, 1920
(1888-1923)

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