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A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write fiction


Virginia Woolf

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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
VIRGINIA WOOLF To pursue the thing she needed to do, Virginia Woolf wrote, “a woman must have money and a room of...
ELISABETH EAVES Virginia Woolf was wrong. You do not need a room of your own to write.
JULIA GLASS A woman must have money and a room of her own
VIRGINIA WOOLF Think of Virginia Woolf, 'A Room of One's Own' - that's what women have always neede...
MARY DALY Vita Sackville-West is one of my favorite female icons. She was a writer and a prolific gardener, bu...
GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
RITA MAE BROWN Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
EDWARD ALBEE And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Elizabeth disliked the tragic, martyred image of Virginia Woolf which grew up after her death. When ...
VICTORIA GLENDINNING Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexu...
RITA MAE BROWN I love reading other people's diaries, especially someone like Virginia Woolf's - such a for...
MICHAEL PALIN She was so far absorbed in this work, for it was really difficult to find how all these sounds shoul...
NICOLE ARLYN My dis-interest in what people speak of as "women's problems," "women's literature." Have women a sp...
JOYCE CAROL OATES A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE If a woman so much loves money, she will not fail to share her secret with fools.
VIKRANT PARSAI She has a mind of her own. She's a very intelligent woman and she can make her own decisions. She's ...
CARL BRUNO I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily l...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
IAN MCEWAN Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up arou...
MARGARET SANGER It is imperative that a woman keep her sense of humor intact and at the ready. She must see, even if...
MAYA ANGELOU If we are to fight discrimination and injustice against women we must start from the home for if a w...
AYSHA TARYAM Betty White is a riot. She is a good time! That is the bottom line: Betty White is a good time. She ...
ODETTE ANNABLE Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her fa...
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE Every woman should marry for her own advantage since her husband will represent her, as visible as h...
PHILIPPA GREGORY If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other ha...
DAVID MAMET My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.
JOYCE CAROL OATES A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.
ANNA HELD Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could ...
ANNA GODBERSEN It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social ri...
ERNESTINE ROSE An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of ...
ROD LAVER When a woman enters a room, her presence should make them feel some type of way; when she exits the ...
SHAKENA MORGAN A Western woman is not her brother's or her father's property. She's just herself. She c...
AYAAN HIRSI ALI To remain virtuous a man has only to combat his own desires; a woman must resist her own inclination...
DE LATENA If you are a woman with your own money, you have confidence. You have the pick of the litter.
LONI LOVE When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your bac...
ROBERT JORDAN For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done befo...
VIRGINIA WOOLF However, the majority of women are neither harlots nor courtesans; nor do they sit clasping pug dogs...
VIRGINIA WOOLF anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
enough money within her control to move out
and rent a place of...
PAMELA REDMOND SATRAN Allison started doing pageants because she came from a single-parent home and virtually had no money...
LAVINIA MANN CUMMINGS I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distr...
PAUL THEROUX She is a convicted criminal who stole thousands of rands of taxpayers' money to fund her own lavish ...
DOUGLAS GIBSON A Woman is home caring for her children! even if she can't. Trapped in this well-built trap, A Woman...
URSULA K. LEGUIN In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.
CARA DELEVINGNE A woman must prefer her liberty over a man. To be happy, she must.
A man to be happy, however,...
ROMAN PAYNE The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if sh...
OSCAR WILDE The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else, if ...
OSCAR WILDE A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of he...
JOHN BERGER A woman has to change her nature if she is to be a wife. She has to learn to curb her tongue, to sup...
PHILIPPA GREGORY When lovely woman stoops to folly and / Paces about her room again, alone, / She smoothes her hair w...
T.S. ELIOT Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not bea...
GERMAINE GREER If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.
JANE AUSTEN If you think a woman is so good looking that she must already have a boyfriend' you're probably righ...
NICK KINSELLA Every woman should have a purse of her own.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY Write your own learnings, write your own quotes, write your thoughts of wisdom, instead of reading s...
APURVA GAGLANI Where there is a woman there is magic. If there is a moon falling from her mouth, she is a woman who...
NTOZAKE SHANGE Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.
ZAINAB SALBI I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemi...
ANDREA BOCELLI A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after...
THOMAS HARDY A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after...
CORRA MAY HARRIS Remember this my sons, if a woman doesn't know how to respect and love her own mother, she can never...
MAICHEE SUMMER A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
OSCAR WILDE A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people t...
ANITA BROOKNER If a woman stands behind you, respect her; if she stands beside you, cherish her; if she stands with...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I always believe a woman should have 5 non-negotiables that she should stick to when attracting a ma...
PATTI STANGER Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On...
ELIZABETH GILBERT No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway&#...
J. G. BALLARD If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.
OSCAR WILDE I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her...
JOHN STEINBECK A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual sho...
IRVIN S. COBB I admire Virginia Woolf so much that I wonder why I don't like her more. She makes the inner thi...
SUSAN GLASPELL The rule is that if anybody is in the garden, apart from the gardeners, they must leave. Nobody is a...
BRIAN HOEY Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
MARLENE DIETRICH As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
OSCAR WILDE The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live an...
KARL MARX Before money, woman is the root of all evil because if woman didn’t exist, money would have no mea...
VIKRANT PARSAI We believe our son intended to help this poor woman, got her a hotel room for a night's rest and nev...
CARMEN PROVIANO More than anything, I began to hate women writers. Frances Burney, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Browning, ...
CATHERINE LOWELL It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
DAVID LEAVITT But I don't want to write my own fiction,' Cath said, as emphatically as she could. 'I don't want to...
RAINBOW ROWELL The woman is a reflection of her man's love. A well-loved woman sees the world through the lenses of...
ALEXANDRA PINTO When she found a place of her own
and packed her bags he asked her to marry him. She kissed him...
IAN MCEWAN The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough. She must have convinced he...
MAYA ANGELOU If a woman laughs when you hurt her, you ought to cry, for you have lost her; if she cries, you may ...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
AGATHA CHRISTIE A woman will always be insecure if she attaches her identity and sense of worth to the amount of mal...
ANUPAMA GARG It was this that made him attractive to women, who liked the sense that he was not altogether manly....
VIRGINIA WOOLF I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.
VIRGINIA WOOLF You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she...
JOHN RUSKIN Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all ri...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY The greatest texts, I think, first dazzle, then with careful rereading, they instruct. I have learne...
LAUREN GROFF A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' ...
BETTY FRIEDAN If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It's no more than a fa...
AYN RAND I decided that if I want to write about a female hero in the 1920s, I'm going to have to give he...
KERRY GREENWOOD A woman is so selfish that in order to safeguard her vested-interest and secure high position, she m...
ANUJ SOMANY When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, erotic...
SHEILA JEFFRYS There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; bu...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and se...
NAOMI WOLF

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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as w...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends c...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It exp...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
VIRGINIA WOOLF It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
VIRGINIA WOOLF It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by l...
VIRGINIA WOOLF For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It h...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point
VIRGINIA WOOLF Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of ro...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again -- as I always am when I...
VIRGINIA WOOLF We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
VIRGINIA WOOLF It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entir...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.
VIRGINIA WOOLF These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
VIRGINIA WOOLF If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not abo...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
VIRGINIA WOOLF My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring...
VIRGINIA WOOLF We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by fi...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I feel certain that I'm going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times....
VIRGINIA WOOLF As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
VIRGINIA WOOLF What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
VIRGINIA WOOLF It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and...
VIRGINIA WOOLF My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring...
VIRGINIA WOOLF It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if...
VIRGINIA WOOLF If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private compa...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
VIRGINIA WOOLF All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority an...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in,...
VIRGINIA WOOLF It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handlin...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distort...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the poli...
VIRGINIA WOOLF That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
VIRGINIA WOOLF The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of an...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Therefore if you insist upon fighting to protect me, or
VIRGINIA WOOLF When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.
VIRGINIA WOOLF We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to fol...
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VIRGINIA WOOLF One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than whe...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
VIRGINIA WOOLF It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with...
VIRGINIA WOOLF To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
VIRGINIA WOOLF As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
VIRGINIA WOOLF When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLF If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It exp...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Books are the mirrors of the soul.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, re...
VIRGINIA WOOLF To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
VIRGINIA WOOLF The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you.
VIRGINIA WOOLF One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her c...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as s...
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VIRGINIA WOOLF The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
VIRGINIA WOOLF There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intell...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and w...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our c...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF When a subject is highly controversial... one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how o...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locke...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every ye...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and s...
VIRGINIA WOOLF As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of cre...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can on...
VIRGINIA WOOLF For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in com...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
VIRGINIA WOOLF A strange thing has happened -- while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has be...
VIRGINIA WOOLF There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still posse...
VIRGINIA WOOLF For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private f...
VIRGINIA WOOLF What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accid...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of E...
VIRGINIA WOOLF If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, w...
VIRGINIA WOOLF What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable -- now to be...
VIRGINIA WOOLF One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats --and one always secret...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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VIRGINIA WOOLF All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority an...
VIRGINIA WOOLF A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
VIRGINIA WOOLF It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeate...
VIRGINIA WOOLF This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to...
VIRGINIA WOOLF On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
VIRGINIA WOOLF When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazing...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Language is wine upon the lips.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
VIRGINIA WOOLF A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it mu...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the fi...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figu...
VIRGINIA WOOLF It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by c...
VIRGINIA WOOLF One must love everything.
VIRGINIA WOOLF How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish,...
VIRGINIA WOOLF You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparen...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bag...
VIRGINIA WOOLF It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
VIRGINIA WOOLF One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than...
VIRGINIA WOOLF He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF It flattered her, where she was most susceptible of flattery, to think how, wound about in their hea...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want a...
VIRGINIA WOOLF For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury y...
VIRGINIA WOOLF For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty obser...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all g...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am roo...
VIRGINIA WOOLF It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
VIRGINIA WOOLF One might fancy that day, the London day, was just beginning. Like a woman who had slipped off her p...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I rise from my worst disasters, I turn, I change.
VIRGINIA WOOLF As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole worl...
VIRGINIA WOOLF How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the sol...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
VIRGINIA WOOLF What does the brain matter compared with the heart?
VIRGINIA WOOLF Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
VIRGINIA WOOLF If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private com...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
VIRGINIA WOOLF If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly an...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality o...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I am rooted, but I flow.
VIRGINIA WOOLF When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
VIRGINIA WOOLF Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
VIRGINIA WOOLF The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge...
VIRGINIA WOOLF One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always se...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.
VIRGINIA WOOLF The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy...
VIRGINIA WOOLF With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets—what nonsense was he ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck betwee...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLF One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtl...
VIRGINIA WOOLF What I value is the naked contact of a mind.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic ac...
VIRGINIA WOOLF All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last,...
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