A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
VIRGINIA WOOLFA veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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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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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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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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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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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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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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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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