Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
VIRGINIA WOOLFIllness 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.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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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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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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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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