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We are not pleading merely for courage and sincerity; we are suggesting that the proper stuff of fiction is a little other than custom would have us believe it.

— Virginia Woolf The Common Reader (1925)

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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

A Room of One's Own (1929)

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

A Room of One's Own (1929)

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

The Moment and Other Essays (1948)

The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

A Room of One's Own (1929)

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

Orlando: A Biography (1928)

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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.

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All doubt is cowardice — all trust is brave.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within.

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Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

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