I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
VIRGINIA WOOLFEach 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.
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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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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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 like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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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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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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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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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
VIRGINIA WOOLF