As a woman my country is the whole world. For,” the outsider will say, “in fact, as a woman, I have no country. Therefore if you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‘our’ country, let it be understood, soberly and rationally between us, that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share but not to gratify my instincts, or to protect either myself or my country. ‘Our’ country denies me the means of protecting myself, forces me to pay others a very large sum annually to protect me, and is so little able, even so, to protect me that Air Raid precautions are written on the wall. ‘Our’ country still ceases to be mine if I marry a foreigner. “‘Our country,’” she will say, “throughout the greater part of its history has treated me as a slave it has denied me education or any share in its possessions. Virginia Woolf, Jane Marcus (Introduction), Mark Hussey (Editor) 3.91 4,385 ratings349 reviews The author received three separate requests for a gift of one guinea-one for a women’s college building fund, one for a society promoting the employment of professional women, and one to help prevent war and protect culture, and intellectual liberty. Her brother to fight on her behalf to protect “our” country. “She will find that she has no good reason to ask
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