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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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.
I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.
Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
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