The outsider will say, "in fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world." And if, when reason has said its say, still some obstinate emotion remains, some love of England dropped into a child's ears by the cawing of rooks in an elm tree, by the splash of waves on a beach, or by English voices murmuring nursery rhymes, this drop of pure, if irrational, emotion she will make serve her to give to England first what she desires of peace and freedom for the whole world.


Ch. 3 (p. 109). - Three Guineas (1938)

Virginia Woolf Quotes

The outsider will say, in fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. And if, when...

The outsider will say, in fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. And if, when...

The outsider will say, in fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. And if, when...

The outsider will say, in fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. And if, when...