Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWomen have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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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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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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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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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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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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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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Thinking is my fighting.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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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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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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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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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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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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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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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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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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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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