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  1. Hessa

    Hessa edited the memorable quotes of A Room of One's Own Sunday, March 17, 2013.

    • Added a quotation: “Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
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  2. Lela N

    Lela N edited the memorable quotes of A Room of One's Own Monday, November 7, 2011.

    • Added a quotation: “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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  3. Rowland Bismark Fernando

    Rowland Bismark Fernando edited the memorable quotes of A Room of One's Own Tuesday, June 15, 2010.

    • Added a quotation: “Life for both sexes—and I look at them, shouldering their way along the pavement—is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength. More than anything, perhaps, creatures of illusion that we are, it calls for confidence in oneself.Woolf
    • Added a quotation: “It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.This passage in Chapter Three is one of the most significant conclusions of A Room of One’s Own.
    • Added a quotation: “One must strain off what was personal and accidental in all these impressions and so reach the pure fluid, the essential oil of truth.This assertion, presented in Chapter Two, characterizes the narrator’s initial mission in A Room of One’s Own.
    • Added a quotation: “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.This phrase from Chapter One is perhaps the most famous line from A Room of One’s Own,
    • Added a quotation: “Call me Mary Beton, Mary Seton, Mary Carmichael or any other name you please—it is not a matter of importance.This line comes from Chapter One, and its enigmatic and elusive tone regarding the true identity of the narrator is maintained throughout the text.
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