I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWe are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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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.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
VIRGINIA WOOLF