“If, then, one should try to sum up the character of women's fiction at the present moment, one would say that it is courageous; it is sincere; it keeps closely to what women feel. It is not bitter. It does not insist upon its femininity.”

— Virginia Woolf

"Women and Fiction"
Granite and Rainbow (1958)

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