Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWomen and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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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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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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