“ Life for both sexes - and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement - is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength. More than anything, perh… Virginia Woolf
“ Does it explain my astonishment the other day when Z, most humane, most modest of men, taking up some book by Rebecca West and reading a passage in it, exclaimed, 'The arrant feminist! She says that m… Virginia Woolf
“ The mere fact that a very large number of people believe such a thing and that the world would be a better place if it were true, is no reason for believing that it is true. Leonard Woolf
“ Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of… Leonard Woolf
“ The 'swapping' is interesting. This practice one had thought confined to certain earnest Americans in the smaller, more tedious cities, to those wives and husbands who had read sex manuals and radical… Elizabeth Hardwick
