Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
VIRGINIA WOOLFA woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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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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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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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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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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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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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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