"Life for both sexes - and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement - is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength. More than anything, perhaps, creatures of illusion, it calls for confidence in oneself. Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself. By feeling that one has some innate superiority - it may be wealth, or rank, a straight nose, or the portrait of a grandfather by Romney - for there is no end to the pathetic devices of the human imagination - over other people."

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About Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf was an English modernist novelist, essayist, and critic. She is known for works such as Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and A Room of Ones Own. Her narrative experimentation strongly influenced 20th-century literature.

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