A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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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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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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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 have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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