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If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or our country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that y
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"If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share"

- Virginia Woolf

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This quote by Virginia Woolf talks to the concept of gender roles and expectations. Woolf is recommending that males frequently feel the requirement to eliminate and secure their nation and those they like, but that this is driven by a sex impulse that ladies do not share. She is highlighting that males ought to comprehend that ladies do not share in the very same advantages that originate from fighting for their country, which they must not expect women to share in the same sense of pride and satisfaction that comes from it. Woolf is recommending that males need to know the gender functions and expectations that are put upon them, which they should not anticipate ladies to share in the exact same sense of pride and satisfaction that originates from fighting for their country. She is stressing that guys should know the gender functions and expectations that are placed upon them, which they must not expect ladies to share in the exact same sense of pride and satisfaction that originates from it.
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Virginia Woolf This quote is written / told by Virginia Woolf between January 25, 1882 and March 28, 1941. She was a famous Author from United Kingdom. The author also have 73 other quotes.

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