“ For women are always, always, always talking about what one feels, and if they say "as one gets older," they mean you to reply with something quite off the point. ”
Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room (1922). copy citation
| Author | Virginia Woolf |
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| Source | Jacob's Room |
| Topic | women meaning |
| Date | 1922 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5670/pg5670-images.html |
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“It is this which is teased and twisted in society. People come together in a room. "So delighted," says somebody, "to meet you," and that is a lie. And then: "I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older." For women are always, always, always talking about what one feels, and if they say "as one gets older," they mean you to reply with something quite off the point.
Jacob sat himself down in the quarry where the Greeks had cut marble for the theatre. It is hot work walking up Greek hills at midday. The wild red cyclamen was out; he had seen the little tortoises hobbling from clump to clump;”
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