In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it… — Virginia Woolf

In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is the very opposite of what it is above.

1928
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Woolf, Virginia. Orlando. Penguin Classics, 2019, ch. 4.
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Woolf, Virginia. Orlando: A Biography. Hogarth Press, 1928, ch. 4.

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