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What bothers me most about my teeth is that they don’t travel loin south, don’t sprout from the Mother Mouth. Vagina dentata, come closah, say high.


Virginia Petrucci

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VIRGINIA WOOLF All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority an...
VIRGINIA WOOLF A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
VIRGINIA WOOLF It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeate...
VIRGINIA WOOLF This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to...
VIRGINIA WOOLF On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
VIRGINIA WOOLF A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become...
VIRGINIA POSTREL Rich people in poor places want to show off their wealth. And their less affluent counterparts feel ...
VIRGINIA POSTREL The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part ...
VIRGINIA FOXX Adult stem cells tend not to form tumors.
VIRGINIA FOXX Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults i...
VIRGINIA SATIR Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we...
VIRGINIA POSTREL The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.
VIRGINIA POSTREL The goal of socialism is a fairer allocation of economic resources, which its advocates often claim ...
VIRGINIA POSTREL Socialism is about claims of justice, and it is also about money: about wealth, income, physical and...
VIRGINIA POSTREL Average Americans order nonfat decaf iced vanilla lattes at Starbucks and choose from 1,500 drawer p...
VIRGINIA POSTREL When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazing...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.
VIRGINIA FOXX When 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' premiered on the WB Network in 1996, American culture was in...
VIRGINIA POSTREL Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft...
VIRGINIA FOXX Before it became a ubiquitous part of urban life, Starbucks was, in most American cities, a radicall...
VIRGINIA POSTREL The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the...
VIRGINIA POSTREL The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before ...
VIRGINIA POSTREL From the days of biplanes and silk scarves, the aviator has been the archetype of masculine glamour....
VIRGINIA POSTREL The Dallas model, prominent in the South and Southwest, sees a growing population as a sign of urban...
VIRGINIA POSTREL Language is wine upon the lips.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I felt like a failure, like somehow my self-worth was tied to my ability to procreate. I didn't ...
VIRGINIA WILLIAMS What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of ...
VIRGINIA SATIR Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some messa...
VIRGINIA SATIR Clothing creates the illusion that bodies fit an aesthetically pleasing norm. And that illusion depe...
VIRGINIA POSTREL Persuasion has become a kind of force. The more the advertiser knows about what consumers want, and ...
VIRGINIA POSTREL A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it mu...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the fi...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figu...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Lessons learned today, I am my greatest champion. Nobody will respect me unless I stand up for mysel...
VIRGINIA TOOLE It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by c...
VIRGINIA WOOLF In Shakespeare's world, characters cannot trust their senses. Is the ghost in Hamlet true and tr...
VIRGINIA POSTREL One must love everything.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Most of us cluster somewhere in the middle of most statistical distributions. But there are lots of ...
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