“Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.”

— Vita Sackville-West

Letter to her husband Harold Nicolson (1 June 1919); published in Harold and Vita (1992), by Nigel Nicolson, p. 89

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English writer and gardener 1892–1962

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