No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Virginia Woolf A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas
Also known as: Adeline Virginia Stephen, Virginia Stephen
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About Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941), born Adeline Virginia Stephen, was a British writer who is considered to be one of the foremost modernist/feminist literary figures of the twentieth century.

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