If one's a man, the only confidences one gets are from young women about their love affairs.
 Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (1915). copy citation

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Author Virginia Woolf
Source The Voyage Out
Topic confidence love
Date 1915
Language English
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“Of course we're always writing about women—abusing them, or jeering at them, or worshipping them; but it's never come from women themselves. I believe we still don't know in the least how they live, or what they feel, or what they do precisely. If one's a man, the only confidences one gets are from young women about their love affairs. But the lives of women of forty, of unmarried women, of working women, of women who keep shops and bring up children, of women like your aunts or Mrs. Thornbury or Miss Allan—one knows nothing whatever about them.” source