“Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.”
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Virginia Woolf 382
English writer 1882–1941Related quotes
"Old Mortality" in Pale Horse (1939)
Context: I don't want any promises, I won't have false hopes, I won't be romantic about myself. I can't live in their world any longer, she told herself, listening to the voices back of her. Let them tell their stories to each other. Let them go on explaining how things happened. I don't care. At least I can know the truth about what happens to me, she assured herself silently, making a promise to herself, in her hopefulness, her ignorance.

On method acting. p. 313
Kinski Uncut : The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski (1996)