"Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the"

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Source: Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.627, Wordsworth Editions

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Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf was a British author known for her modernist literature and pioneering feminist ideas, particularly in 'Mrs. Dalloway' and 'A Room of One's Own'.

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