“Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. (...) Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about. No force… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She remembered how, as a young man, she had insisted that women must be obedient, chaste, scented, and exquisitely apparelled. "Now I… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Here she tossed her foot impatiently, and showed an inch or two of calf. A sailor on the mast, who happened to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends. (...) almost… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Here is nature once more at her old game of self-preservation. This train of thought, she perceives, is threatening mere waste of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“My belief is that if we live another century or so — I am talking of the common life which is the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The questions that we have to ask and to answer about that procession during this moment of transition are so important that… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I should never be able to fulfill what is,I understand, the first duty of a lecturer-to hand you after an hour's discourse… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“One does not like to be told that one is naturally the inferior of a little man” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women” — 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