63 result(s) for Virginia Woolf Quotes.
"As a woman, I have no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world."
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency."
"Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written largely in his works."
"There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we them."
"Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."
"What is important now is to recover our senses."
"To enjoy freedom, the moon, the stars; to be slave to no superstition; to give a meaning to human life."
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"As I took my seat now, the fire crackled and the sweet smell of cedarwood curled round me."
"The future is dark, which is on the whole, the best thing the future can be, I think."
"A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life."
"I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me."
"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others."
"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title."
"Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art."
"As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world."
"Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"
"I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure."
"Thinking is my fighting."
"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
"If a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?"
"I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky."
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"I read the book of Job last night. I don't think God comes out well in it."
"For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill."
"One cannot read a book: one can only reread it."
"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."
"Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works."
"It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."
"On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points."
"Every woman knows...no one can bring you peace but yourself."
"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."
"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners."
"I am rooted, but I flow."
"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world."
"Do not be afraid of being called un-fashionable."
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"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself."
"Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation."
"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."
"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past."
"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."
"A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living."
"To write, 'I don't know,' is to write a profoundly knowledgeable statement. It's a poignant reflection of the constantly changing nature of existence."
"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."
"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages."
"Arrange whatever pieces come your way."
"As a woman, I have no country. As a woman, I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world."
"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."
"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
"Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works."
"The beauty of the world... has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."
"To enjoy freedom, we have to control ourselves."
"How can one be well... when one suffers morally?"
"The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantlepiece forever."
"As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking."
"In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us."
"The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."
"The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers."
"So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say."
"If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people."
"The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."
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