The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
VIRGINIA WOOLFIn solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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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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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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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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