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Quote by Virginia Woolf
As a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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The speaker rejects belonging to any single nation, saying that being a woman makes “the whole world” her country instead. The repeated phrase “As a woman” connects her identity with this refusal of national limits. The quote presents worldwide human belonging as more important than loyalty to one particular country.
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