I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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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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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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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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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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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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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
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