I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
VIRGINIA WOOLFGrowing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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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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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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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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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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Fear no more, says the heart.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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