Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
VIRGINIA WOOLFAs a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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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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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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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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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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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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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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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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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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