We think of Woolf and the Bloomsbury group as bedazzling standard-bearers of liberalism. Doris Lessing wrote in her fore-word to Carlyle's House, "We all wish our idols and exemplars were perfect; a pity she was such a wasp, such a snob-and all the rest of it-but love has to be warts and all. At her best she was a very great artist, I think, and part of the reason was that she was suffused with the spirit of 'they wished for the truth'-like her friends, and indeed, all of bohemia."

— Monsters by Claire Dederer (Page 124)