The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
VIRGINIA WOOLFSecond hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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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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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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For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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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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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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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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Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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