The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For one's children so often gave one's own perceptions a little thrust forwards.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that;… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“children never forget. For this reason, it was so important what one said, and what one did, and it was a relief… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“He was a failure, he repeated. Well, look then, feel then. Flashing her needles, glancing round about her, out of the window,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“...it struck her, this was tragedy-- not palls, dust, and the shroud; but children coerced, their spirits subdued.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Had they not been taken, she asked, to circuses when they were children? Never, he answered, as if she asked the very… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Well then, we went and had tea with Henry James today…and Henry James fixed me with his staring blank eye—it is like… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Mr John Langdon Davies warns women ‘that when children cease to be altogether desirable, women cease to be altogether necessary’.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I feel that I have had a blow; but it is not, as I thought as a child, simply a blow from… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What we have to do now, then, Sir, is to lay your request before the daughters of educated men and to ask… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“thought Clarissa Dalloway, what a morning—fresh as if issued to children on a beach.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Think of me, the uneducated child reading books in my room at 22 Hyde Park Gate -- now advanced to this glory...… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“...you have neither wife nor child (without any sexual feeling, she longed to cherish that loneliness)...” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“So the days pass and I ask myself sometimes whether one is not hypnotised, as a child by a silver globe, by… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“children never forget. For this reason, it was so important what one said, and what one did, and it was a relief… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“But he never looked at his daughter, and strode out of the room, leaving in the minds of the women a sense,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“You cannot, it seems, let children run about the streets. People who have seen them running wild in Russia say that the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having. Never pretend that children, for instance, can be replaced by… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I am about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. On one side all is correct, definite, orderly; the paths… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life -… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
