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You know, I was very courteous while you were speaking.


Virginia Littrell

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VIRGINIA WOOLF A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
VIRGINIA WOOLF It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeate...
VIRGINIA WOOLF This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to...
VIRGINIA WOOLF On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
VIRGINIA WOOLF A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become...
VIRGINIA POSTREL Rich people in poor places want to show off their wealth. And their less affluent counterparts feel ...
VIRGINIA POSTREL The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part ...
VIRGINIA FOXX Adult stem cells tend not to form tumors.
VIRGINIA FOXX Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults i...
VIRGINIA SATIR Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we...
VIRGINIA POSTREL The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.
VIRGINIA POSTREL The goal of socialism is a fairer allocation of economic resources, which its advocates often claim ...
VIRGINIA POSTREL Socialism is about claims of justice, and it is also about money: about wealth, income, physical and...
VIRGINIA POSTREL Average Americans order nonfat decaf iced vanilla lattes at Starbucks and choose from 1,500 drawer p...
VIRGINIA POSTREL When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazing...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.
VIRGINIA FOXX When 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' premiered on the WB Network in 1996, American culture was in...
VIRGINIA POSTREL Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft...
VIRGINIA FOXX Before it became a ubiquitous part of urban life, Starbucks was, in most American cities, a radicall...
VIRGINIA POSTREL The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the...
VIRGINIA POSTREL The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before ...
VIRGINIA POSTREL From the days of biplanes and silk scarves, the aviator has been the archetype of masculine glamour....
VIRGINIA POSTREL The Dallas model, prominent in the South and Southwest, sees a growing population as a sign of urban...
VIRGINIA POSTREL Language is wine upon the lips.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I felt like a failure, like somehow my self-worth was tied to my ability to procreate. I didn't ...
VIRGINIA WILLIAMS What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of ...
VIRGINIA SATIR