A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
VIRGINIA WOOLFLiterature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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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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Thinking is my fighting.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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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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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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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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Second 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.
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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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