The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWomen have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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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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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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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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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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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 am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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