Vita Sackville-West Quote

Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.


Letter to her husband Harold Nicolson (1 June 1919); published in Harold and Vita (1992), by Nigel Nicolson, p. 89


Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.

Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.

Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.

Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.