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"Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest."

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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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