Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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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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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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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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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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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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Thinking is my fighting.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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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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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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