“Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at forty) to say something in my own voice; and that interests me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise.”

—  Virginia Woolf

26 July 1922
A Moment's Liberty (1990)

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