"Each wrong act brings with it its own anaesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years."
— Rose Macaulay

January 1, 1970

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Novelists from EnglandWomen authors from EnglandFeminists from EnglandNursesWomen born in the 1880s
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Letters to a friend, 1950-1952, edited by Constance Babington-Smith, 1961. Quoted in "Conscience", in Rosalie Maggio (ed.), The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women, 1996.