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English Modernist Writer. She is best known for her feminist essay "A Room of One's Own" and the novel "Mrs. Dalloway". Committed suicide at age 59. 1882-1941

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“It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality”
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“They can because they think they can.”
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“But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.”
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“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man, at twice its natural size”
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“Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.”
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“Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.”
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“The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.”
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“It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.”
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“My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery -always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?”
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“To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.”
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