Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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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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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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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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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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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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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
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